Deals by practice · November 2026
Restructuring & Insolvency: deal monitor
Dated deals that Restructuring & Insolvency 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
- 701
- Dated deals, 12 monthsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- -5.5%
- Year on yearSettled 12-month windows
- $620m
- Median disclosed value
- 295
- Distinct clients
What the data show
From November 2025 to October 2026, Sartori & Partners recorded 701 dated deals worked by Restructuring & Insolvency lawyers. On settled windows the deal count went from 763 to 721 (-5.5%), a change inside the noise of the two counts, so we read it as flat. The deal market as a whole moved +10.6% over the same windows.
By deal type, Restructuring & insolvency is involved in 72.6% of these deals and Disputes & investigations in 12.4%. By client industry, Consumer Goods & Retail is involved in 8.6% of these deals and Banks & Financial Institutions in 6.0%.
Deal value was disclosed on 12.3% of them; where disclosed, the median was $620 million. 295 distinct clients appear across the window.
First among advising firms is Latham & Watkins, with deals in the 21-40 band.
A firm hiring for Restructuring & Insolvency 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 | Latham & Watkins | 21-40 |
| 2 | Davis Polk & Wardwell | 21-40 |
| 3 | White & Case | 21-40 |
| 4 | Kirkland & Ellis | 21-40 |
| 5 | Willkie Farr & Gallagher | 21-40 |
| 6 | Linklaters | 11-20 |
| 7 | Weil Gotshal & Manges | 11-20 |
| 8 | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison | 11-20 |
| 9 | Lowenstein Sandler | 11-20 |
| 10 | Brown Rudnick | 11-20 |
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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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