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.

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01 The numbers

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
02 Reading the data

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.

Electronics & Semiconductors deals by year

2026 runs to October.

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%.

Share of deals involving each practice

Deal value was disclosed on 24.4% of them; where disclosed, the median was $650 million. 362 distinct clients appear across the window.

Where the work is done: share of the sector's deals handled with lawyers in each city

Latham & Watkins ranks first among advising firms, in the 61-100 band; the full top 10 follows as ranks and bands.

Lateral moves by lawyers with this focus, by year

2026 runs to October.

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.

03 Firms

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.

Advising firms ranked by deals, 12 months
RankFirmDeals (band)
1Latham & Watkins61-100
2Davis Polk & Wardwell41-60
3Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati21-40
4Simpson Thacher & Bartlett21-40
5DLA Piper21-40
6King & Wood Mallesons21-40
7Freshfields21-40
8Clifford Chance21-40
9Kirkland & Ellis11-20
10Cooley11-20
04 Explore

Related monitors and reports

Reports

  • 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.

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  • 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.

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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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