Lawyers

Global M&A Co-Chair and London Co-Head Roger Johnson spoke with Law.com International about the firm’s remarkable rise in the UK M&A advisory rankings this past year. The article cited recent rankings by the London Stock Exchange Group showing that Paul,Weiss jumped from 32nd to ninth in total value of announced UK-sided deals in 2024, handling 37 transactions with a total value of $29.5 billion. In the last quarter alone, the firm increased its market share by six percentage points.

“We have hired an elite partner bench covering public M&A and private equity, and these partners have been active across complex carve-out transactions,” Roger says. “We now have more than 200 lawyers practicing English law in London. This enables our clients to benefit from the leading lawyers across the two main global financial hubs, London and New York, for their most complex cross-border deals.”

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