Deals by practice · November 2026
Private Equity: deal monitor
Dated deals that Private Equity 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
- 1,300
- Dated deals, 12 monthsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- +10.4%
- Year on yearSettled 12-month windows
- $425m
- Median disclosed value
- 699
- Distinct clients
What the data show
From November 2025 to October 2026, Sartori & Partners recorded 1,300 dated deals worked by Private Equity lawyers. Year on year, on windows that end a month early, the deal count grew 10.4% (1,182 to 1,305). The deal market as a whole moved +10.6% over the same windows.
By deal type, Private equity is involved in 48.9% of these deals and Venture & growth in 10.2%. By client industry, Financial Sponsors is involved in 83.9% of these deals and Asset Management & Funds in 3.1%.
Deal value was disclosed on 10.5% of them; where disclosed, the median was $425 million. 699 distinct clients appear across the window.
First among advising firms is Latham & Watkins, with deals in the 101-150 band.
For a firm building in Private Equity, deal flow is the demand signal: a practice that wins this work needs the partners to staff it.
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 | Latham & Watkins | 101-150 |
| 2 | Ropes & Gray | 101-150 |
| 3 | Kirkland & Ellis | 61-100 |
| 4 | Weil Gotshal & Manges | 41-60 |
| 5 | McDermott Will & Schulte | 41-60 |
| 6 | Willkie Farr & Gallagher | 21-40 |
| 7 | Goodwin Procter | 21-40 |
| 8 | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | 21-40 |
| 9 | Sidley Austin | 21-40 |
| 10 | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison | 21-40 |
Related monitors and reports
Deal types
Other practices
- Capital Markets
- Corporate & M&A
- Intellectual Property
- Banking & Finance
- Litigation & Disputes
- Real Estate
- Funds & Investment Management
- Projects & Infrastructure
- Product Liability & Torts
- Public Law & Government
- Restructuring & Insolvency
- Employment & Labor
- Insurance & Reinsurance
- Antitrust & Competition
- Health Care
- Financial Services Regulatory
Hiring in this market
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].
For law firm leaders
Planning a partner hire in this market?
We run retained partner searches using the same data behind this page.