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Houlihan Lokey, Latham & Watkins, Goldin Associates and Epic Bankruptcy Solutions capture No. 1 spots in respected categories
November 15, 2012 - NEW YORK, N.Y. - The Deal Pipeline, the transaction information service powered by The Deal newsroom, has announced the results from their third quarter Bankruptcy League Tables.
The Bankruptcy League Tables by volume involve active U.S. bankruptcy cases of debtors with assets of $10 million or more, and the rankings are based on the aggregation of those asset values. There are eight categories: law firms and lawyers, investment banks and bankers, crisis management firms and professionals, and non-investment banks and professionals.
Topping the list of law firms this quarter is Latham & Watkins LLP with 125 cases totaling $1,109 billion. Moving from the No. 4 spot in the second quarter to No. 2 in the third quarter is Duane Morris LLP with 172 cases totaling $1,084.1 billion. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP takes the No. 3 spot with 133 cases totaling $1,121 billion.
Robert Rosenberg of Latham & Watkins LLP is the top lawyer with 32 active cases and 42 active assignments totaling $898.8 billion. Thomas Lauria from White & Case LLP is No. 2 with 25 active cases and 28 active assignments totaling $864.6 billion, and Douglas B. Rosner of Goulston & Storrs PC is next with 20 active cases and 21 active assignments totaling $807.2 billion.
Leading the investment banking category are No.1 Houlihan Lokey Inc. with 17 cases and $68.9 billion in assets, No. 2 Moelis & Co. LLC with 12 cases and $64 billion in assets, and No. 3 Lazard with 10 cases and $61.4 billion in assets.
The top investment bankers are No. 1 Eric Siegert of Houlihan Lokey Inc. with 4 active cases and 4 active assignments totaling $47.9 billion, followed by Leon Szlezinger of Jefferies & Co. with 5 active cases and 5 active assignments totaling $32.7 billion, and Barry Ridings of Lazard with 3 active cases and 3 active assignments totaling $32.5 billion.
Among crisis management firms, Goldin Associates LLC grabbed the top spot with 13 cases valued at $695.6 billion, followed by FTI Consulting Inc. with 104 cases at $299.9 billion and Capstone Advisory Group LLC with 21 cases at $170.7 billion.
David Parker with Goldin led the crisis management professionals' category with 9 cases and 9 assignments valued at $669.7 billion, followed by Michael Eisenband with 10 cases and 10 assignments valued at $139.1 billion and Conor Tully with 8 cases and 8 assignments totaling $124.8 billion, both from FTI Consulting Inc.
The non-investment bank category features firms and professionals that do not raise capital for others and tend to either have accounting, auditing or consulting firm lineage, or get the bulk of their business from being claims and noticing agents. Epiq Bankruptcy Solutions LLC is No. 1 in this category with 102 cases at $1,041.8 billion in assets; BMC Group Inc. is No. 2 with 85 cases valued at $741.3 billion and Kurtzman Carson Consultants rounds out the top 3 with 151 cases valued at $338.4 billion in assets.
The top three non-investment banking professionals are Lorenzo Mendizabal of Epiq Bankruptcy Solutions LLC with 102 cases and 102 assignments valued at $1,041.8 billion in assets, Tinamarie Feil of BMC Group Inc. with 70 cases and 73 assignments valued at $732.4 billion in assets, and Jonathan Carson of Kurtzman Carson Consultants with 150 cases and 150 assignments totaling $337 billion.
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