Morgan Stanley topped the M&A league table for financial advisers for the second quarter of 2018, according to latest deals advisers research by data analytics company GlobalData.
The bank led the top twenty table of financial advisors globally and worked on total deals valued at $464.7bn in Q2 of 2018.
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GlobalData used its tracking of all merger and acquisition, private equity/venture capital and asset transaction activity around the world to compile this league table.
Global deals market Q2 2018
The overall global deals value grew 77.8% from $547.7bn in Q2 2017 to $973.9bn in Q2 2018, while volume rose marginally by 3.9% from 8,683 to 9,019 during the two quarters in review, respectively.
All announced deals count towards the league table total complied by GlobalData.
Q2 2018 |
Q2 2017 |
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Rank |
Adviser Name |
Value (USD bn) |
Number of Deals |
Number of Deals |
Value (USD bn) |
1 |
Morgan Stanley |
464.7 |
86 |
103.9 |
62 |
2 |
Goldman Sachs |
405.3 |
112 |
226.0 |
80 |
3 |
JP Morgan |
353.2 |
85 |
125.9 |
99 |
4 |
Evercore |
232.5 |
46 |
49.1 |
44 |
5 |
Citi |
186.3 |
59 |
147.0 |
49 |
6 |
BofA Merrill Lynch |
185.4 |
51 |
127.6 |
52 |
7 |
Barclays |
150.7 |
47 |
54.0 |
30 |
8 |
Credit Suisse |
114.4 |
42 |
82.3 |
55 |
9 |
Deutsche Bank |
111.6 |
34 |
60.6 |
33 |
10 |
PJT Partners |
107.9 |
8 |
16.1 |
4 |
11 |
Centerview Partners |
100.1 |
17 |
84.5 |
42 |
12 |
UBS |
99.9 |
42 |
27.3 |
14 |
13 |
Nomura |
95.0 |
26 |
12.5 |
14 |
14 |
Lazard Ltd |
76.0 |
65 |
40.0 |
70 |
15 |
Raine Group |
75.0 |
2 |
– |
– |
16 |
Rothschild |
65.3 |
104 |
40.4 |
78 |
17 |
Robey Warshaw |
65.0 |
3 |
– |
– |
18 |
Wells Fargo Securities |
64.5 |
14 |
26.9 |
15 |
19 |
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial |
62.6 |
13 |
3.4 |
11 |
20 |
Mizuho Financial |
60.0 |
12 |
0.6 |
3 |
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By GlobalDataGlobalData financial deals analyst Prakhar Baghmar said: “The top three advisers, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, have a significant lead over the rest of the advisers in the list, both from value and volume perspective. Though Rothschild is featured among top three advisers by volume, its non-involvement in some of the big-ticket deals has pushed its ranking down in the league table.”
Raine Group and Robey Warshaw are the two new notable entrants into GlobalData’s top 20 financial advisors league table, despite featuring in just two and three deals respectively.
Legal advisors ranking
US law firm Sullivan & Cromwell dominated the legal advisers league table also published by GlobalData.
In terms of volumes, Jones Day topped the charts with 135 deals during the quarter, followed by Latham & Watkins LLP and Goodwin Procter LLP with 59 deals each. These three advisers are ranked 15th, 3rd and 13th in value terms, respectively.
Q2 2018 |
Q2 2017 |
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Rank |
Adviser Name |
Value (USD bn) |
Number of deals |
Value (USD bn) |
Number of Deals |
1 |
Sullivan & Cromwell |
200.6 |
40 |
102.6 |
52 |
2 |
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson |
191.3 |
27 |
58.2 |
16 |
3 |
Latham & Watkins |
185.6 |
59 |
87.5 |
126 |
4 |
Davis Polk & Wardwell |
166.3 |
28 |
44.3 |
29 |
5 |
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton |
151.3 |
26 |
17.6 |
25 |
6 |
Linklaters |
146.4 |
47 |
19.6 |
57 |
7 |
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz |
140.4 |
31 |
93.6 |
25 |
8 |
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett |
136.6 |
44 |
72.5 |
47 |
9 |
Slaughter and May |
132.6 |
15 |
5.7 |
9 |
10 |
Weil Gotshal & Manges |
112.1 |
37 |
36.8 |
39 |
11 |
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer |
106.4 |
38 |
15.0 |
41 |
12 |
Cravath Swaine & Moore |
99.5 |
15 |
34.6 |
16 |
14 |
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom |
98.3 |
55 |
72.7 |
51 |
13 |
Goodwin Procter |
96.2 |
59 |
9.5 |
65 |
15 |
Jones Day |
96.1 |
135 |
27.3 |
110 |
16 |
Nishimura & Asahi |
84.4 |
20 |
0.0 |
8 |
17 |
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto |
83.8 |
6 |
3.6 |
9 |
18 |
Mourant Ozzannes |
80.9 |
5 |
0.3 |
3 |
19 |
Cooley |
80.9 |
36 |
3.0 |
28 |
20 |
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu |
80.7 |
7 |
2.6 |
5 |
Baghmar commented, “Although Jones Day surpassed Sullivan & Cromwell in actual deal numbers, some big-ticket transactions by the latter have influenced their positioning on the list.”
GlobalData is the parent company of Verdict.
