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Meet Europe’s top 10 M&A lawyers

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Weil Gotshal & Manges, and Herbert Smith Freehills top the EMEA rankings

Meet Europe’s top 10 M&A lawyers
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Two mega deals have propelled a Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner to the top of a 2020 ranking of deal lawyers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Freshfields London partner Julian Long topped the list advising on deals valued at £56.57bn. Long acted for insurance company Aon on its £27bn merger with insurance broker Willis Towers Watson and represented AstraZeneca in its £29.5bn deal with Alexion Pharmaceuticals, according to data provided exclusively to Financial News by MergerLinks (list in full below).

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