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).