Big bankruptcies earned five Texas law firms a spot on Texas Lawyer affiliate The American Lawyer‘s "Corporate Scorecard 2013," while energy work secured a place for six other large Texas law firms on rankings of the nation’s top dealmakers in 2012. [See related charts.]
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld had the most impressive appearance in the bankruptcy area, working on five of the largest U.S. bankruptcies filed in 2012 and five of the largest emergences for the year. And Vinson & Elkins had the biggest showing among the Texas firms in other areas of corporate work by ranking on eight separate deal-making charts.
