Linklaters corporate partner Alex Woodward has topped a ranking showing the profession’s most prolific UK M&A advisers in 2018.

Data from Mergermarket shows Woodward played roles on 11 takeovers of UK companies worth a total of more than £7bn in 2018, putting him ahead of Kirkland & Ellis partner Gavin Gordon, Squire Patton Boggs’ James McKay, and Charles Russell Speechly’s Malcolm MacDougall, who each worked on 10 deals during the year.