Client industry · November 2026
Transportation & Logistics: who advises the sector
Dated deals for transportation & logistics 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
- 423
- Dated deals, 12 monthsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- +3.1%
- Year on yearSettled 12-month windows
- $600m
- Median disclosed value
- 225
- Distinct clients
What the data show
From November 2025 to October 2026, Sartori & Partners recorded 423 dated deals for Transportation & Logistics clients. Year on year the deal count held level (423 to 436 on settled windows, +3.1%). The deal market as a whole moved +10.6% over the same windows.
By practice, Corporate & M&A is involved in 32.2% of these deals and Capital Markets in 23.9%. By deal type, M&A is involved in 26.7% of these deals and Disputes & investigations in 23.4%.
Deal value was disclosed on 19.1% of them; where disclosed, the median was $600 million. 225 distinct clients appear across the window.
Latham & Watkins ranks first among advising firms, in the 11-20 band; the full top 10 follows as ranks and bands.
Lawyers whose work centers on Transportation & Logistics changed firm 119 times in the same window. Partners were 52.1% of those moves, against 27.7% across the lateral market. Year on year those moves changed -12.5%.
For a company in Transportation & Logistics, the adviser table shows where sector experience sits, which is where an in-house hire is most likely to 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 | 11-20 |
| 2 | Jones Day | 11-20 |
| 3 | Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer | 11-20 |
| 4 | White & Case | 11-20 |
| 5 | Davis Polk & Wardwell | 11-20 |
| 6 | Baker McKenzie | 11-20 |
| 7 | Kirkland & Ellis | 6-10 |
| 8 | DLA Piper | 6-10 |
| 9 | Clifford Chance | 6-10 |
| 10 | A&O Shearman | 6-10 |
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Reports
- M&A, Disputes or Capital Markets: Transport Panels Need All Three
M&A appears on 26.7% of transport and logistics deals, disputes on 23.4% and capital markets on 22.9%: about a quarter each. The firms sit in two close bands, and the work runs through Frankfurt and Hong Kong as well as New York and London.
November 11, 2026 · November 2026 - Transport Litigators Come From Smaller Firms: Look Past Deal Firms
About one in five transport-focused lawyers who changed firms over three years left firms of under 150 lawyers, 21.9% against the market's 11.4%, and as many, 21.4%, left firms of 150-399 lawyers. They are litigators with more counsel than the market, so claims counsel is found in small and mid-size litigation firms.
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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