Cahill Capital Markets & Lending Practice Tops Q3 2019 League Tables
Date: 11/11/19
Cahill’s Capital Markets & Lending Practice received high ranks in league tables from Bloomberg, Debtwire and Thomson Reuters LPC in multiple categories. This demonstrates Cahill’s continued prominence within the capital markets space.
Bloomberg
Cahill's Capital Markets and Lending practice again earned top ranks in various debt and equity categories in Bloomberg's Q3 2019 Global Legal Adviser league tables.
For fourteen consecutive years, Cahill has been ranked as the number one legal adviser to U.S. high yield bond underwriters. Cahill continued this trend and captured a 35% share of the U.S. high yield market.
Cahill ranked third in Bloomberg’s US Corporate Bonds category, advising in 124 transactions which generated approximately $86 billion in aggregate gross proceeds.
The firm also ranked among the most active legal advisers to U.S. investment grade bond underwriters, European high yield bond underwriters and global bond underwriters, as well as ranking among the top 15 legal advisers to U.S. underwriters of equity offerings and equity-linked offerings.
Debtwire
Cahill has also earned top ranks in various debt categories in Debtwire’s league tables. Cahill has been ranked number one by volume and deal count in Debtwire’s 3Q19 North America High Yield Bonds Manager’s Legal Counsel league table. Cahill advised the initial purchasers and/or underwriters in 99 transactions generating more than $66.1 billion in aggregate gross proceeds and captured more than 38% of the market share for U.S. high yield bonds.
Cahill also ranked first in volume and deal count by Debtwire’s 3Q19 North America Manager’s Legal Counsel league tables in the following categories: M&A Bonds, Telecom, Technology, and Healthcare. Additionally, Cahill was ranked number one by volume in Debtwire’s 3Q19 North America High Yield Bonds Energy Manager’s Legal Counsel.
Cahill also ranked first in volume and deal count by Debtwire’s 3Q19 North America M&A Leveraged Loans Lead Bank’s Legal Counsel league table. Cahill advised the lead arrangers in 50 transactions generating more than $36 billion in aggregate gross proceeds and captured more than 29% of the market share.
Cahill also ranked first in volume and deal count in Debtwire’s 3Q19 North America Lead Bank’s Legal Counsel league tables in Healthcare Leveraged Loans and Telecom Leveraged Loans. The Firm also ranked first in volume in Debtwire’s 3Q19 North America Technology Leveraged Loans Lead Bank’s Legal Counsel league table.
Thomson Reuters LPC
Cahill received high ranks in several categories in the third quarter of 2019 by Thomson Reuters LPC. Reflecting its continued prominence in the U.S. bank leveraged lending market, Cahill captured a 32.53% market share by volume advising on 127 transactions which generated more than $129 billion in aggregate gross proceeds. Cahill has consistently been the top ranked legal advisor to lead arrangers of leveraged loans since 2010.