Deals by practice · November 2026
Litigation & Disputes: deal monitor
Dated deals that Litigation & Disputes 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
- 1,788
- Dated deals, 12 monthsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- +9.3%
- Year on yearSettled 12-month windows
- $50m
- Median disclosed value
- 899
- Distinct clients
What the data show
Sartori & Partners data count 1,788 dated deals worked by Litigation & Disputes lawyers from November 2025 to October 2026. Measured on settled 12-month windows, 1,767 deals against 1,616 the year before, the deal count rose 9.3%. The deal market as a whole moved +10.6% over the same windows.
By deal type, Disputes & investigations is involved in 98.0% of these deals. By client industry, Banks & Financial Institutions is involved in 5.7% of these deals and Asset Management & Funds in 4.3%.
Deal value was disclosed on 6.4% of them; where disclosed, the median was $50 million. 899 distinct clients appear across the window.
First among advising firms is Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, with deals in the 41-60 band.
A firm hiring for Litigation & Disputes work should read the adviser table as the map of where experienced lawyers sit today.
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 | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher | 41-60 |
| 2 | Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan | 41-60 |
| 3 | King & Spalding | 21-40 |
| 4 | Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell | 21-40 |
| 5 | Latham & Watkins | 21-40 |
| 6 | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison | 21-40 |
| 7 | DWF | 21-40 |
| 8 | Mishcon de Reya | 21-40 |
| 9 | Jones Day | 21-40 |
| 10 | Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani | 21-40 |
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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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