Awards and Rankings
January 10, 2019

Goodwin Ranks at the Top of Mergermarket’s 2018 Year-End League Tables

Mergermarket ranked Goodwin among the top global legal advisors in its year-end Global & Regional M&A Report 2018. With more than 500 lawyers solely focused on the technology, life sciences and private equity industries, Goodwin’s combined expertise at the intersection of capital and innovation is unsurpassed.

The firm’s 2018 year-end rankings (by deal count) are as follows:

  • #2 Global Buyouts & Exits
  • #2 U.S. Buyouts
  • #2 Global Exits
  • #2 U.S. Exits
  • #3 Global Buyouts
  • #4 U.S. M&A
  • #5 Global M&A

Goodwin’s internationally recognized Private Equity practice focuses on buyouts, recapitalizations, growth equity investments, and portfolio company transactions. The Technology Companies practice consistently ranks among the top five most active law firms for venture capital, IPOs and M&A. The Life Sciences practice is deeply experienced in corporate governance, financing and M&A transactions, collaborations and licensing, regulatory matters, and intellectual property law. Last year, the practice advised on the largest biotechnology IPO in history.