LSEG M&A Full Year 2025 Ranking
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Great data
2025 names when considering sell-side advisory roles only:
Houlihan at 26, Ardea at 27, PJT at 29.
Where did you source the sell-side advisor only data and how does this differ from the M&A advisor rankings data above in the OP?
Dealogic. Unfortunately no fee data available yet
why do people say PJT is close or equal to EVR? From the league tables it shows that EVR does more deals
PJT are on larger deals and play a more significant role on the ones they are mandated on compared to EVR (especially in EMEA, less true of the US).
Same is true of the likes of Jefferies, Citi, PWP etc.
Deal values are misleading due to the roles played by advisors on deals.
Take Citi for example - down on deal value but posted their record M&A fee share since 2015, gains in total IB fee share too; clearly prioritising lower volume, larger deals and a more significant role on the deals they advise on too.
Fees is a significantly better metric as to how banks are performing.
still, evercore ranks way higher than PJT in fees
is there a FY M&A fees table yet?
rbc falloff is insane
This VP in IB-Cov clearly works at Citi. He's been commenting on every single Citi thread hyping up his bank.
While I do agree that Citi has done better this year, it's only on very select sectors where they earned the majority of those fee share gains. It'll be interesting to see what Vis does in the long term, but let's not get ahead of ourselves and claim that it's a completely transformed franchise (yet).
Large banks (especially balance sheet banks) make big name hires all the time, it'll take at least 5 years to see how that plays out and for the reputation of a bank / division to change
No that kid accidentally forgot to go anonymous in one post. He is an incoming BofA intern who is trying to get ppl to shit on Citi through this operation false flag BS.
Any way to sort by fees?
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