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Kirkland builds leading M&A practice on big hires, deals

The $23 billion sale of ketchup maker H.J.Heinz Co to Berkshire Hathaway Inc and buyout firm 3G Capital, Avis Budget Group's takeover of Zipcar, and the $6.9 billion leveraged buyout of BMC Software , have one common link: Kirkland & Ellis LLP.The law firm, which served as a legal adviser on those deals as well as several other of the largest transactions of the year, with a combined deal value of $56.6 billion, has jumped to ninth place in the ranking of merger advisers, up from 18th in 2012, according to Thomson Reuters data released on Monday.Just four years ago in 2009, Kirkland ranked 72nd in the legal league table.When ranked by the number of deals with a value of $100 million or more, Kirkland was the second-biggest merger adviser, having worked on 70 deals so far this year, Thomson Reuters data showed."What has changed recently at Kirkland is that while we continue to grow the number of deals, we've significantly grown the number of high profile, high-value deals," said Daniel ...

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