Deals by practice · November 2026
Intellectual Property: deal monitor
Dated deals that Intellectual Property lawyers worked on over the last 12 months: volume, type, client industry and the advising firms.
The last 12 months: November 2025 to October 2026
- 5,352
- Dated deals, 12 monthsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- +20.9%
- Year on yearSettled 12-month windows
- $170m
- Median disclosed value
- 3,121
- Distinct clients
What the data show
Sartori & Partners data count 5,352 dated deals worked by Intellectual Property lawyers from November 2025 to October 2026. On settled windows the deal count went from 4,399 to 5,319, up 20.9% year on year. The deal market as a whole moved +10.6% over the same windows.
By deal type, Disputes & investigations is involved in 95.3% of these deals and Other in 1.4%. By client industry, Consumer Goods & Retail is involved in 8.8% of these deals and Technology & Software in 7.0%.
Deal value was disclosed on 2.0% of them; where disclosed, the median was $170 million. 3,121 distinct clients appear across the window.
First among advising firms is Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, with deals in the 151-250 band.
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Firms by rank and band
Each firm appears as a rank and a band, never an exact count, and only with at least 10 moves in the window.
| Rank | Firm | Deals (band) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton | 151-250 |
| 2 | Greenberg Traurig | 151-250 |
| 3 | Finnegan Henderson Farabow Garrett & Dunner | 101-150 |
| 4 | Barnes & Thornburg | 101-150 |
| 5 | ArentFox Schiff | 101-150 |
| 6 | Womble Bond Dickinson | 61-100 |
| 7 | Holland & Hart | 61-100 |
| 8 | Knobbe Martens | 61-100 |
| 9 | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | 61-100 |
| 10 | Taft Stettinius & Hollister | 61-100 |
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Edition November 2026. Window: November 2025 to October 2026. Source: Sartori & Partners, from public law-firm announcements, firm websites and professional profiles, checked monthly. Methodology. Spot an error? [email protected].
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