Michael Pescod of Slaughter & May tops the first-half league table of M&A lawyers in Europe, compiled by Mergermarket.com, the M&A intelligence website, for Financial News.

His position rests on two big deals announced during the first six months of this year. He advised Glaxo on its merger with Wellcome and Unilever on its Bestfoods bid.

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