If there was any doubt that Europe’s major deal market is dominated by just a handful of players, Legal Week‘s primary adviser deal rankings for 2007 comprehensively show the top four UK firms to be a class apart from their rivals.
The tables – which strip out secondary roles such as those for banks and financial advisers from Mergermarket’s 200 largest deals of last year – show Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Clifford Chance (CC), Linklaters and Allen & Overy (A&O) significantly ahead of their rivals by value and volume on European M&A.
