GlobalData’s top 20 legal adviser firms

Q2 2018		Q2 2017		Q2 2018
Rank	Adviser name	Value (USD B)	Number of deals	Value (USD B)	Number of deals	Value change (%)
1	Sullivan & Cromwell	102.6	52	200.6	40	0.49
2	Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson	58.2	16	191.3	27	0.7
3	Latham & Watkins	87.5	126	185.6	59	0.53
4	Davis Polk & Wardwell	44.3	29	166.3	28	0.73
5	Clearly Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton	17.6	25	151.3	26	0.88
6	Linklaters	19.6	57	146.4	47	0.87
7	Watchtell Lipton Rosen & Katz	93.6	25	140.4	31	0.33
8	Simpson Thatcher and Bartlett	72.5	47	136.6	44	0.47
9	Slaughter & May	5.7	9	132.6	15	0.96
10	Weil Gotshal & Manges	36.8	39	112.1	37	0.67
11	Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer	15	41	106.4	38	0.86
12	Cravath Swaine & Moore	34.6	39	99.5	15	0.65
13	Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom	72.7	51	98.3	55	0.26
14	Goodwin Proctor	27.3	110	96.2	135	0.72
15	Jones Day	103.9	62	96.1	86	-0.08
16	Nishimura & Asahi	0.0	8	84.4	20	1
17	Mori Hamada & Matsumoto	3.6	9	83.8	6	0.96
18	Mourant Ozzannes	0.3	3	80.9	5	1
19	Cooley	3.0	28	80.9	36	0.96
20	Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu	2.6	5	80.7	7	0.97

US legal firm Sullivan & Cromwell led the legal advisers league table published by GlobalData.

In terms of value it advised on total announced deals worth $201bn in the second quarter of 2018.

In terms of volumes, Jones Day topped the charts with 135 deals during the quarter, followed by Latham & Watkins LLP and Goodwin Procter LLP with 59 deals each. These three advisers are ranked 15^th,  3^rd and 13^th in value terms, respectively.

GlobalData used its tracking of all merger and acquisition, private equity/venture capital and asset transaction activity around the world to compile this league table.

The overall global deals value grew 77.8% from $547.7bn in Q2 2017 to $973.9bn in Q2 2018, while volume rose marginally by 3.9% from 8,683 to 9,019 during the two quarters in review, respectively.

All announced deals count towards the league table total compiled by GlobalData.