Client industry · November 2026
Electronics & Semiconductors: who advises the sector
Dated deals for electronics & semiconductors clients over the last 12 months, the practices and firms behind them, and how lawyers with this focus moved.
The last 12 months: November 2025 to October 2026
- 790
- Dated deals, 12 monthsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- +33.9%
- Year on yearSettled 12-month windows
- $650m
- Median disclosed value
- 362
- Distinct clients
What the data show
From November 2025 to October 2026, Sartori & Partners recorded 790 dated deals for Electronics & Semiconductors clients. Measured on settled 12-month windows, 805 deals against 601 the year before, the deal count rose 33.9%. The deal market as a whole moved +10.6% over the same windows.
By practice, Capital Markets is involved in 52.5% of these deals and Corporate & M&A in 29.0%. By deal type, Capital markets is involved in 52.7% of these deals and M&A in 20.5%.
Deal value was disclosed on 24.4% of them; where disclosed, the median was $650 million. 362 distinct clients appear across the window.
Latham & Watkins ranks first among advising firms, in the 61-100 band; the full top 10 follows as ranks and bands.
Lawyers whose work centers on Electronics & Semiconductors changed firm 128 times in the same window. Partners were 52.3% of those moves, against 27.7% across the lateral market. Year on year those moves changed +23.3%.
For a general counsel in Electronics & Semiconductors, these are the firms and practices that see the most of the sector's work: the bench to brief, and the bench in-house hires come from.
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 | 61-100 |
| 2 | Davis Polk & Wardwell | 41-60 |
| 3 | Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | 21-40 |
| 4 | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | 21-40 |
| 5 | DLA Piper | 21-40 |
| 6 | King & Wood Mallesons | 21-40 |
| 7 | Freshfields | 21-40 |
| 8 | Clifford Chance | 21-40 |
| 9 | Kirkland & Ellis | 11-20 |
| 10 | Cooley | 11-20 |
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- Semiconductor Deals Rose 33.9% in 2026: Capital Markets Carried It
Deals in electronics and semiconductors rose 33.9% against 10.6% for all deals. Capital markets work appears on 52.7% of the sector's deals, 2.1 times the market rate, and Hong Kong and Beijing rank among its ten busiest cities, which technology and software does not show.
November 11, 2026 · November 2026 - Semiconductor Patent Lawyers Move in Two Cities: 21.1% of Moves Each
Lawyers whose focus is electronics and semiconductors carry intellectual property on 89.1% of their moves and litigation on 72.7%, and they join firms in San Francisco and Washington at 21.1% each. A chip company hiring in-house IP counsel recruits from IP litigation teams, not from its deal lawyers.
November 11, 2026 · November 2026
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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