27 January 2026

DLA Piper jumps to number one spot for M&A in EMEA Infralogic rankings

Notable increases also in Global M&A and Project Finance deals

DLA Piper has topped Infralogic’s Energy and Infrastructure Rankings 2025, advising on the most M&A deals in the EMEA region in 2025, having jumped from #4 last year. This impressive performance was augmented by notable progress in the ranking for the number of Global M&A deals that the firm advised on, climbing from #7 to #3 and for the number of Project Finance deals, moving from #5 to second in the table.

Infralogic is the global infrastructure, power and renewables market’s first truly interactive technology platform that combines data, analytics and news to help professionals identify investment and refinancing opportunities, analyze new markets and manage their pipelines. The rankings include transactions within infrastructure, power and energy markets as well as all infrastructure and energy fund activity irrespective of sector.

Over the past 12 months, DLA Piper has worked on a number of outstanding global deals, demonstrating the firm's ability to advise clients on their most complex, high-value, and multi-jurisdictional projects. These include advising Stonepeak on the USD10.1 billion acquisition of Castrol from bp, Grupo Cox on its USD4.2 billion Iberdrola Mexico acquisition and the c.GBP2 billion investment commitment into the Sizewell C Nuclear Project.