Rank the Banks!

Hey everyone, I threw together some league tables for the banks. I grouped them as, Bulge Bracket, Balance Sheet Banks, Elite Boutique, and MM.

The data is completed deals YTD for all sectors.

I then ranked each bank in the category by taking the average of the market shares of both the total deal value and the total deal count for each bank.

Obviously this is a pretty flawed metric given that some of the banks on the list only focus on certain industries, types of deals, etc; however, I wanted to quantify the ranking process.

Please chime in and tell me what you think!

19 Comments
 

Grouping league tables seems frivolous. Is this M&A and capital markets? The Average Deal Value is clearly not correct, meaning one of the two inputs is off.

The categories should be: BBs, Balance Sheet banks (there is no lower BB), EBs and MMs.

Jefferies is MM, Soc Gen and Macquarie are BS banks... not a FIG guy but Sandler may be an EB vs. MM (they may straddle both large and MMs). Also, I'm not in the loop with BBs, but I would think UBS and DB would be clearly ahead of those other BS banks when it comes to US M&A.

 

Interesting that PJT has the highest avg deal size of all the EB and top BB; they're the most skewed in terms of thin flow of large deals which I didn't realize.

Edit: Nvm irrelevant now after OP updated

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Some of your statistics are woefully inaccurate for platforms that do substantial business with private companies. 

 
 

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