Do you reccomend adding recent M&A deals advised by the bank into your cover letter?

Would that show 'commercial awareness', or the recruiter would think is out of fit? For example:

"Some of the deals advised by Nomura I have been most impressed by include Japan's Renesas Electronics 4.9bn acquisiton of UK's Dialog Semiconductor and Platinium Equity acquisition of Iberconsa".

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