Credit: Summit Art Creations/Adobe Stock Deal Watch: Freshfields, Simpson, Kirkland, Paul Weiss Among Big Firms on International Deals
Law firms that have large groups of dealmakers both inside and outside the U.S. appear to be benefiting from a series of international deals lately.
September 25, 2024 at 03:08 PM
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Mergers and Acquisitions
After several weeks of megadeals and IPOs, deal activity appears to have calmed, with only a few announced M&A deals over $1 billion in the last nine days. And that comes even with the U.S. Federal Reserve lowering interest rates last week.
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- White & Case
- Hunton Andrews Kurth
- Baker Botts
- Holland & Hart LLP
- Stevens & Brand, L.L.P.
- Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
- Clifford Chance
- Ellenoff Grossman And Schole Llp
- Dentons
- Homburger
- Davis Polk & Wardwell
- Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
- Gibbons PC
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Milbank LLP
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Warton & Garrison
- Paul Hastings
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
- Holland & Knight LLP
- Jones Day
- Latham & Watkins
- Linklaters
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