This column should start with a joke about how much lawyers like golf. But it won’t. My editors wouldn’t like that. Maybe they would. Either way, no golf jokes. Seriously.

It was a strong overall game from the deal world last week, with a $10.5 billion mega-deal in the pharma space led by Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and Kirkland & Ellis (details below) as well as one of the more interesting proposed mergers of the year, which Wachtell was also involved in.