Corporate Control Alert – a service of The Deal that provides analysis of key Delaware case law, trends in dealmaking, activism, and regulation – has ranked Alston & Bird second among counsel to financial advisors on U.S. M&A transactions with a value of $100 million or more announced between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2024.
Partners Stuart Rogers and Aaron Dixon of Alston & Bird’s Financial Advisors Team acted as counsel to investment banks in 28 qualifying transactions in 2024 with an aggregate value of more than $79 billion.
In 2024, Alston & Bird advised investment banks on qualifying deals that included:
- Charter Communications’ $17.9 billion pending acquisition of Liberty Broadband Corporation; Alston & Bird represented the financial advisor to Charter Communications.
- Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings Inc.’s $435 million pending sale to Tripadvisor; Alston & Bird represented the financial advisor to Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings Inc.
- Summit Materials’ $11.5 billion announced sale to Quikrete; Alston & Bird represented the financial advisor to Summit Materials.
- Seres Therapeutics Inc.’s $175 million sale of its VOWST business to Société des Produits Nestlé S.A.; Alston & Bird represented the financial advisor to Seres Therapeutics Inc.
- Apollo Global Management Inc.'s $6.3 billion announced acquisition of Everi Holdings Inc. and the gaming and digital business of International Game Technology PLC; Alston & Bird represented the financial advisor to Everi Holdings Inc.
Alston & Bird is consistently ranked among the top 10 law firms representing financial advisors in M&A deals by Corporate Control Alert, in recent years acting as counsel to investment banks in transactions with an aggregate value exceeding $1 trillion.