Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, already near the top of the first quarter M&A league tables for legal advisers, has hit the ground running in April.

The firm got the month started by scoring a lead role for JAB Holding Co., the investment arm of Germany’s wealthy Reimann family, on the Krispy Kreme and Keurig coffee cup owner’s $7.5 billion acquisition of St. Louis-based bakery and casual dining chain Panera Bread Co.