GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, has revealed its league tables for top 10 financial advisers by value and volume in Asia Pacific for 2020 in its report, Global and Asia Pacific M&A Review & Legal Adviser League tables 2020’.
According to GlobalData’s M&A report, a total 7,621 M&A deals were announced in the region during 2020, marking a 15.6% increase over the 6,594 deals announced in 2019. The deal value increased by 37% from $486bn in 2019 to $666bn in 2020.
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Top Advisers by Value and Volume
Davis Polk & Wardwell and Herbert Smith Freehills were the top mergers and acquisitions (M&A) legal advisers in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region for 2020 by value and volume, respectively. Davis Polk & Wardwell advised on 44 deals worth $72.3bn, the highest value among all the advisers. Meanwhile, Herbert Smith Freehills advised on 81 deals worth $23.6bn.
GlobalData lead analyst Aurojyoti Bose said: “Herbert Smith Freehills was the only advisor to advise on more than 80 deals. However, it did not find a place in the list of top 10 advisors by value, predominantly due to the involvement in low-value transactions. Similarly, majority of the firms in the top 10 list by volume also lagged behind in terms of deal value with only two among them able to make it to the list of top 10 advisors by value.
“Meanwhile, Davis Polk & Wardwell’s involvement in high value transactions (that included 18 billion-dollar deals) played a pivotal role and helped it bag the top spot by value.”
Mori Hamada & Matsumoto occupied the second position in GlobalData’s table of top legal advisers for M&As in APAC by value with 22 deals worth a total of $71.5bn, followed by Nishimura & Asahi with 40 deals worth $59.8bn and Morrison & Foerster with 11 deals worth $42.5bn.
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By GlobalDataAZB & Partners occupied the second position by volume with 70 deals worth $20.9bn, followed by Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas with 58 deals worth $19.4bn and Baker McKenzie with 55 deals worth $15.6bn.
GlobalData’s league tables are based on the real-time tracking of thousands of company websites, advisory firm websites and other reliable sources available on the secondary domain. A dedicated team of analysts monitors all these sources to gather in-depth details for each deal, including adviser names.
To ensure further robustness to the data, the company also seeks submissions from leading advisers, through adviser submission forms on GlobalData’s website.
