The best legal minds remain concentrated in the UK's top six firms, according to the inaugural Financial News ranking of the 10 top London lawyers for mergers and acquisitions transactions.

Nine of the top 10 M&A lawyers work at Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith, Linklaters and Slaughter and May. Just one left an English firm to join the UK operation of New York firm Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom. The top-ranked lawyers will be revealed in Monday's edition of Financial News.

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