Latham & Watkins led mergers and acquisitions (M&A) authorized advisory by deal worth within the expertise, media and telecom sector (TMT) throughout the first three quarters of 2025, dealing with transactions price $180.5bn, in response to GlobalData.
Kirkland & Ellis suggested on the very best variety of offers, with a complete of 106 transactions throughout the identical interval.
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GlobalData lead analyst Aurojyoti Bose mentioned: “Kirkland & Ellis was the highest adviser by quantity throughout Q1-Q3 2024 and retained that place throughout Q1-Q3 2025 as nicely. It additionally continues to outpace its friends by a big margin by way of quantity and was the one adviser with triple-digit deal quantity throughout Q1-Q3 2025. Furthermore, it additionally held the third place by worth throughout the overview interval.
“In the meantime, the entire worth of offers suggested by Latham & Watkins elevated greater than fourfold throughout Q1-Q3 2025 in comparison with the identical interval a 12 months earlier, serving to it to enhance its rating from the sixth place to the highest place.
“Latham & Watkins suggested on 20 billion-dollar offers throughout Q1-Q3 2025, together with 5 mega offers valued greater than $10bn. It additionally held the second place by quantity throughout Q1-Q3 2025.”
The info, sourced from GlobalData’s Monetary Offers Database, exhibits that Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz ranked second in deal worth, advising on $161.7bn in transactions.
Kirkland & Ellis adopted with $140.3bn, whereas Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Cravath Swaine & Moore suggested on $125.8bn and $109.4bn, respectively.
By way of deal quantity, Latham & Watkins positioned second, advising on 77 transactions.
CMS adopted with 56 offers, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati with 55, and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher with 45.
GlobalData, a knowledge and analytics firm, compiled the authorized advisers league desk based mostly on M&A exercise inside the expertise, media and telecom sector from January to September 2025.
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 accessible on the secondary area. A devoted group of analysts screens all these sources to collect in-depth particulars for every deal, together with adviser names.
To make sure additional robustness to the information, the corporate additionally seeks submissions of offers from main advisers.
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