Alston & Bird ranked first among legal advisers for the number of financial services M&A transactions during the first half of 2026, according to new data from GlobalData. The firm advised on 23 deals, the highest volume among all legal advisers tracked in the report. The ranking follows Alston & Bird's #1 position in GlobalData's 2025 financial services M&A league tables, underscoring the firm's continued leadership in the sector.
Covering announced financial services transactions during the first six months of the year, the report highlights Alston & Bird’s continued leadership advising banks, investment managers, fintech companies, and specialty finance institutions on complex strategic transactions.
Lawyers in Alston & Bird’s Financial Services Group guide clients through a broad range of transactions, leveraging extensive experience across mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, management buyouts, auctions, tender offers, going-private transactions, and spinoffs.