Cravath Swaine & Moore landed almost $100bn (£53.47bn) worth of M&A deals in the space of two days in December as the Wall Street M&A leader enters 2005 on the back of one of its most lucrative ever months.

On 15 December the New York powerhouse landed two of 2004′s biggest deals: Sprint’s $70bn (£37.4bn) merger with Nextel Communications and Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J’s) $25.4bn (£13.6bn) acquisition of Guidant.