When Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman was hired to work on the $12 billion global stock offering by Australia’s Telstra phone company, the firm made sure to draft San Francisco partners David Lamarre and Stanton Wong.

The deal, which closed in November but was publicized by the firm this month, helped the Australian government earn money and privatize Telstra. It ended up ranking as 2006′s second-largest equity deal worldwide, according to The Wall Street Journal.