Blake Cassels & Graydon leads H1 2026 M&A legal advice in mining by value

Blake Cassels & Graydon and Cassels Brock & Blackwell emerged arsenic the starring ineligible advisers for metals and mining assemblage mergers and acquisitions (M&A) during the archetypal fractional of 2026 (H1 2026) successful presumption of worth and volume, respectively, based connected a league array from information analytics institution GlobalData.

According to GlobalData's Financial Deals Database, Blake Cassels & Graydon topped the worth rankings having advised connected deals worthy $13.8bn.

Cassels Brock & Blackwell was ranked 2nd for woody value, having advised connected transactions totalling $13.1bn.

Fasken Martineau DuMoulin followed with $12.1bn, portion McCarthy Tetrault handled $12bn and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison was credited with $11.4bn.

Meanwhile, successful presumption of volume, Cassels Brock & Blackwell led by handling 13 deals.

McCarthy Tetrault ranked 2nd successful measurement with 13 deals.

Blake Cassels & Graydon ranked 3rd with 12 deals, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin followed with 11 and A&O Shearman managed six deals.

GlobalData pb expert Aurojyoti Bose said: "Cassels Brock & Blackwell saw a 44.4% summation successful the full fig of deals advised by it successful H1 2026 compared to H1 2025. Resultantly, its ranking by measurement improved from 2nd spot to the apical spot. It besides occupied the 2nd presumption successful presumption of value.

"The full worth of deals advised by Blake Cassels & Graydon besides accrued by much than threefold, resulting successful an betterment successful its ranking from the 3rd presumption by worth successful H1 2025 to the apical spot successful H1 2026.

"It advised connected 5 billion-dollar deals successful H1 2026, and engagement successful these big-ticket deals helped it registry a monolithic leap successful full woody value. Blake Cassels & Graydon besides occupied the 3rd presumption successful presumption of volume."

GlobalData's league tables are based connected the real-time tracking of thousands of institution websites, advisory steadfast websites and different reliable sources disposable successful the secondary domain. A dedicated squad of analysts monitors each these sources to stitchery in-depth details for each deal, including advisor names.

To guarantee further robustness of the data, the institution besides seeks submissions of deals from starring advisers.

"Blake Cassels & Graydon leads H1 2026 M&A ineligible proposal successful mining by value" was primitively created and published by Mining Technology, a GlobalData owned brand.