Hunton & Williams LLP is pleased to announce that its capital markets practice has once again earned high rankings in both Bloomberg’s Global Legal Advisor league tables and Thomson Reuters’ Global Capital Markets Review league tables. These full-year 2017 rankings, released earlier this month, represent the world’s top-performing legal advisors across a wide number of debt and equity categories.

“The firm’s capital markets practice continued to build on its strong showing in previous years to maintain its position among the world’s top-ranked capital markets firms,” said New York partner Susan Failla, co-head of the firm’s capital markets practice group. “We look forward to another successful year ahead.”

Bloomberg Capital Markets 2017 Rankings

Bloomberg’s tables represent the top arrangers, bookrunners and advisors across a broad array of capital markets deal types. Hunton & Williams ranked among the top 20 firms across 13 capital markets categories, finishing within the top 10 in five of those categories:

Issuer Legal Advisor:

  • Global Bonds – 8th by volume, 6th by deal count
  • US Investment Grade Corporate Bonds – 10th by volume, 11th by deal count
  • US Corporate Bonds – 11th by volume, 13th by deal count

Manager Legal Advisor:

  • US Investment Grade Corporate Bonds – 17th by volume, 8th by deal count
  • Global Bonds – 19th by volume, 13th by deal count
  • US Corporate Bonds – 17th by volume, 10th by deal count
  • US High Yield Corporate Bonds – 18th by deal count

Thomson Reuters Capital Markets 2017 Rankings

Hunton & Williams ranked among the top 20 firms in 13 of Thomson’s global categories of issuers’ and managers’ legal counsel, based on the number of transactions per advisor:

Issuer Legal Advisor:

  • 11th US Straight Debt Including ABS & MBS
  • 14th US Debt, Equity & Equity Related
  • 14th US Straight Debt Excluding ABS & MBS
  • 15th US Equity & Equity Related
  • 19th Global Straight Debt Including ABS & MBS
  • 19th All International Bonds

Manager Legal Advisor:

  • 11th US Straight Debt Including ABS & MBS
  • 12th US Debt, Equity & Equity Related
  • 14th US Straight Debt Excluding ABS & MBS
  • 16th Global Straight Debt Excluding ABS & MBS
  • 17th Global Straight Debt Including ABS & MBS
  • 17th All International Bonds
  • 18th Global Debt, Equity & Equity Related

The Hunton & Williams capital markets practice comprises the firm’s power and energy capital markets, real estate capital markets, corporate finance, structured finance and securitization, and Latin America practice groups. Over the past five years the firm has handled more than 600 capital markets transactions worth $260 billion, representing issuers, investors and underwriters in a wide range of public and private offerings of equity and debt securities.