Top Firms Poach M&A Talent as $1.4 Trillion Deal Market Rebounds

With global M&A values up 18.5% year over year, law firms are making strategic moves to capture market share - and talent.

According to Macrae+ data, the 50 largest firms hired 28 M&A partners in New York through mid-June, setting 2025 on track to match last year’s record of 65 such hires. As firms compete for high-profile public company dealmakers, Jon Truster, a Partner in our New York office notes:

Public company M&A is still a top practice that firms want to be in. And those hires in the last three or four months are really significant moves. They’re difference-makers that fit the strategies of those firms
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