Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom announced Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters both ranked Skadden first for global and U.S. announced deals by value for the first half of 2014.

Additionally, Thomson Reuters ranked Skadden first for announced deals in the U.S. for target representations and for transactions in the consumer products and services, energy and power, and media industries.

It also topped the following categories: EMEA industrials (announced), Asia (ex-Japan) telecommunications (announced) and Italy (completed).