Financial news and data firm Mergermarket came out with its 2020 mergers and acquisitions report earlier this week, with the findings showing the importance of the technology sector overall and especially in the U.S., while having some differences of opinion compared to competitor Refinitiv on which law firms headed up the 2020 deal value rankings. 

First, the latter. While Refinitiv had the top five law firms for M&A deal value listed as Davis Polk & Wardwell, Latham & Watkins, Sullivan & Cromwell, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Mergermarket had a slightly different list, although most of the players remained the same.