Sidley has been ranked No. 1 for legal company-side advisers in Bloomberg’s Global Activism League Tables for FY 2024 — both in North America and globally. Sidley topped the Bloomberg league tables for North America for the fifth year in a row.
Bloomberg ranked Sidley No. 1 for number of defended companies (44) and aggregate activist stakes in defended companies (over US$11.3 billion) as well as No. 2 for the aggregate market capitalization of defended companies (over US$355 billion). Bloomberg also ranked Sidley the No. 1 legal defense adviser in the consumer discretionary, financials, investment fund, and real estate industries.
A link to the full league tables is here.
The Bloomberg rankings follow Sidley’s Band 1 ranking in Chambers USA in Corporate/M&A: Takeover Defense, stating that “Sidley Austin is the best in the business at activism defense work.” Similarly, The Legal 500 has ranked Sidley in Tier 1 for Shareholder Activism — Advice to Boards, calling Sidley’s shareholder activism co-chairs Kai Liekefett and Derek Zaba “two of the best lawyers in America.” Sidley has also been ranked No. 1 in the shareholder activism defense league tables by FactSet, Diligent, and LSEG for company-side engagements in the past three years.
In the past five years, Sidley has represented companies in approximately 150 proxy contests, several hundred activist campaigns, and dozens of settlements — more than any other legal defense practice in the world.
