Monthly M&A Insider - Mergermarket

League tables
Top 20 financial advisers - Europe
value
YTD
31-Mar-09
House Value
(€m)
Deal
count
1 Goldman Sachs 65,705 22
2 JPMorgan 40,083 23
3 Deutsche Bank 38,140 15
4 Credit Suisse 37,434 17
5 Greenhill & Co 36,781 1
6 Citigroup 30,173 12
7 Lazard 29,345 33
8 Morgan Stanley 26,242 19
9 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 23,506 16
10 Mediobanca 22,913 8
11 Rothschild 21,359 31
12 UBS Investment Bank 19,236 23
13 Santander Global Banking and Markets 17,389 6
14 Nomura Holdings 10,817 7
15 Royal Bank of Scotland Group 10,350 7
16 ING 9,342 8
17 Blackstone Group Holdings 9,319 2
18= China International Capital 9,204 1
18= Macquarie Group 9,204 1
20 Sequoia 8,570 2
YTD
31-Mar-09
House Value
(€m)
Source: mergermarket
Deal
count
1 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 70,912 32
2 Latham & Watkins 50,732 10
3 Cravath Swaine & Moore 46,393 3
4 Linklaters 45,858 40
5 Sullivan & Cromwell 45,832 8
6 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom 38,838 4
7 Davis Polk & Wardwell 38,799 4
8 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 37,332 2
9 Homburger 36,781 2
10 Clifford Chance 25,892 16
11 Chiomenti Studio Legale 20,826 11
12 Uria Menendez 19,062 7
13 Slaughter and May 14,703 15
14 Bonelli Erede Pappalardo 14,291 5
15 Cuatrecasas, Goncalves Pereira 13,834 5
16 Allen & Overy 10,146 20
17 Norton Rose 9,589 7
18 Simmons & Simmons 9,387 10
19 Hengeler Mueller 9,300 5
20 Mallesons Stephen Jaques 9,246 4
Source: mergermarket
volume
YTD
31-Mar-09
Europe
House Value
(€m)
Deal
count
1 Lazard 29,345 33
2 Rothschild 21,359 31
3 JPMorgan 40,083 23
4 UBS Investment Bank 19,236 23
5 Goldman Sachs 65,705 22
6 Deloitte 843 22
7 Morgan Stanley 26,242 19
8 Credit Suisse 37,434 17
9 PricewaterhouseCoopers 398 17
10 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 23,506 16
11 KPMG 7,695 16
12 Deutsche Bank 38,140 15
13 Citigroup 30,173 12
14 BNP Paribas 6,010 10
15 Mediobanca 22,913 8
16 ING 9,342 8
17 Grant Thornton Corporate Finance 262 8
18 Ernst & Young 229 8
19 Nomura Holdings 10,817 7
20 Royal Bank of Scotland Group 10,350 7
YTD
31-Mar-09
House Value
(€m)
Source: mergermarket
The financial adviser league tables by value and volume have been run from 01 January 2009 to 31 March 2009 and exclude lapsed and withdrawn deals. The tables cover all sectors and
are based on the geography of either the target, bidder or seller being Europe
Top 20 legal advisers - Europe
value volume
Deal
count
1 Linklaters 45,858 40
2 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 70,912 32
3 Allen & Overy 10,146 20
4 CMS 3,039 20
5 Clifford Chance 25,892 16
6 Slaughter and May 14,703 15
7 DLA Piper 421 15
8 Jones Day 1,153 13
9 Lovells 1,787 12
10 White & Case 39 12
11 Chiomenti Studio Legale 20,826 11
12 Latham & Watkins 50,732 10
13 Simmons & Simmons 9,387 10
14 Herbert Smith/Gleiss Lutz/Stibbe 8,353 10
15 Shearman & Sterling 6,919 10
16 Baker & McKenzie 1,145 10
17 Dewey & LeBoeuf 1,024 10
18 Weil Gotshal & Manges 1,826 9
19 Plesner 558 9
20 Mannheimer Swartling 453 9
Source: mergermarket
The legal adviser league tables by value and volume have been run from 01 January 2009 to 31 March 2009 and include lapsed and withdrawn deals. The tables cover all sectors and
are based on the geography of either the target, bidder or seller being Europe
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