Food, Beverage & Agriculture: who advises the sector

From November 2025 to October 2026, Sartori & Partners recorded 1,178 dated deals for Food, Beverage & Agriculture clients. On settled windows the deal count went from 1,172 to 1,155 (-1.5%), which we read as flat. The deal market as a whole moved +10.6% over the same windows.

By practice, Intellectual Property is involved in 29.5% of these deals and Capital Markets in 25.5%. By deal type, Disputes & investigations is involved in 38.7% of these deals and Capital markets in 24.6%.

Deal value was disclosed on 14.4% of them; where disclosed, the median was $499 million. 594 distinct clients appear across the window.

Davis Polk & Wardwell ranks first among advising firms, in the 41-60 band; the full top 10 follows as ranks and bands.

Lawyers whose work centers on Food, Beverage & Agriculture changed firm 66 times in the same window. Partners were 57.6% of those moves, against 27.7% across the lateral market. Year on year those moves changed +43.2%.

For a general counsel in Food, Beverage & Agriculture, 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.