Kirkland & Ellis has secured the foremost place as a authorized adviser within the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) sector by way of worth and quantity for the primary three quarters of 2025 (Q1-Q3).
This was decided by the Authorized Advisers League Desk, a complete evaluation of GlobalData, a distinguished information and analytics agency.
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The Monetary Offers Database evaluation disclosed that Kirkland & Ellis attained this prime rank by offering counsel on 384 transactions, which cumulatively amounted to $414.1bn.
GlobalData lead analyst Aurojyoti Bose mentioned: “Kirkland & Ellis was additionally the highest adviser throughout Q1-Q3 2024 by each worth and quantity. The Chicago-based regulation agency outpaced its friends by a big margin by way of quantity. In truth, it was the one adviser that managed to advise on greater than 300 offers throughout Q1-Q3 2025.
“Kirkland & Ellis was additionally concerned in a number of big-ticket offers, which helped it prime the desk by worth. It suggested on 69 billion-dollar offers, which additionally included 10 mega offers valued greater than $10bn.”
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz claimed the second spot within the worth class, having suggested on offers aggregating to $400.4bn.
It was adopted by Latham & Watkins with offers totalling $368.3bn, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom with $329.8bn, and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison with $279.3bn in suggested deal worth.
Within the quantity class, Latham & Watkins additionally secured the second spot, advising on 241 offers.
It wasS adopted by CMS dealing with 221 offers, White & Case with 191, and A&O Shearman with 144.
GlobalData’s league tables are based mostly on the real-time monitoring of hundreds of firm web sites, advisory agency web sites and different dependable sources obtainable on the secondary area. A devoted crew of analysts displays all these sources to assemble in-depth particulars for every deal, together with adviser names.
To make sure additional robustness to the info, the corporate additionally seeks submissions of offers from main advisers.
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