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gs,ms,barclays,db,cs,twp,gca(believe it or not, they are pretty good at the MM space), sagent

havent heard much from citi,ubs,blackstone, evercore,greenhill as far as tech goes.

I think i am missing some but not sure which ones, please add them in if you think of one

 
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ibes_answerJPM is advising HP in the largest tech deal of the year. Not sure how good it is in general.

I. MS, GS and CS II. BarCap, JPM III. DB, Citi

Uhm, pretty sure Intel/McAfee was bigger than Dell-HP/3PAR by about a factor of ~4 - banks there were GS for Intel and MS for McAfee.

Also, to round out the advisors on 3PAR, Qatalyst for 3PAR and CS for Dell.

 
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This guy must have found WSO through Baidu because of the recent "Chinaman" thread, lol.

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GS, MS and CS have always dominated Tech Banking. More recently, JPM owing to overall strength of the franchise is doing well...Among the botiques Qatalyst is clearly making in-roads as well. But when it comes to big deals the top three are likely to dominate. Here are some recent tech deals : - Intel, McAfee (GS, MS) - HP, Dell and 3PAR (JPM, CS, Qatalyst) - HP, Palm (BoA-ML, Qatalyst)
- Intel, Windriver Systems (CS, GS) - Oracle, Sun Microsystems (CS) - SAP, Sybase (BarCap, DB, BoA-ML) - Xerox, ACS ( JPM, Blackstone, Citi, Evercore) - Dell, Perot Systems (MS, GS) - HP, 3-Com (MS, GS) - Cisco, Starent Networks (BarCap, GS) - EMC, Data Domain (Qatalyst) - Cisco, Tandberg (Lazard, JPM) - IBM, SPSS (BoA-ML)

 
Copy Paste Below into Excel: Tech M&A ytd. GS + MS leagues ahead (league table, haha get it :p) of anyone else

Any US Involvement(AD41) Year-To-Date
Rank Financial Advisor Ranking Value inc. Net Debt of Target ($Mil) Mkt. Share Number of Deals 1 Goldman Sachs & Co 26,033.72 33.9 26 2 Morgan Stanley 23,682.89 30.8 26 3 Barclays Capital 17,032.13 22.1 12 4 JP Morgan 14,576.86 19.0 20 5 Credit Suisse 13,135.49 17.1 18 6 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 11,195.57 14.6 16 7 Deutsche Bank AG 9,666.88 12.6 15 8 UBS 7,359.67 9.6 12 9 Jefferies & Co Inc 3,391.14 4.4 21 10 Foros 3,084.17 4.0 2 11 Qatalyst Partners 2,992.67 3.9 2 12 Citi 2,915.01 3.8 5 13 Blackstone Group LP 1,899.67 2.5 5 14 Evercore Partners 1,875.00 2.4 2 15 Houlihan Lokey 1,826.00 2.4 10 16 William Blair & Co 1,662.06 2.2 9 17 Centerview Partners LLC 1,620.55 2.1 2 18 Greenhill & Co, LLC 1,500.81 2.0 3 19 GCA Savvian Group Corp 1,420.50 1.8 7 20 TD Securities Inc 1,408.08 1.8 4 21 Perella Weinberg Partners LP 1,202.06 1.6 1 22 Raymond James Financial Inc 1,138.75 1.5 11 23 Robert W Baird & Co Inc 1,138.23 1.5 2 24 Sumitomo Mitsui Finl Grp Inc 1,062.59 1.4 2 25 Sagent Advisors Inc 1,058.67 1.4 3 Subtotal with Financial Advisor 66,653.88 86.7 278 Subtotal without Financial Advisor 10,251.09 13.3 1,264 Industry Total 76,904.97 100.0 1,542

 
dukie5000Copy Paste Below into Excel: Tech M&A ytd. GS + MS leagues ahead (league table, haha get it :p) of anyone else

Any US Involvement(AD41) Year-To-Date
Rank Financial Advisor Ranking Value inc. Net Debt of Target ($Mil) Mkt. Share Number of Deals 1 Goldman Sachs & Co 26,033.72 33.9 26 2 Morgan Stanley 23,682.89 30.8 26 3 Barclays Capital 17,032.13 22.1 12 4 JP Morgan 14,576.86 19.0 20 5 Credit Suisse 13,135.49 17.1 18 6 Bank of America Merrill Lynch 11,195.57 14.6 16 7 Deutsche Bank AG 9,666.88 12.6 15 8 UBS 7,359.67 9.6 12 9 Jefferies & Co Inc 3,391.14 4.4 21 10 Foros 3,084.17 4.0 2 11 Qatalyst Partners 2,992.67 3.9 2 12 Citi 2,915.01 3.8 5 13 Blackstone Group LP 1,899.67 2.5 5 14 Evercore Partners 1,875.00 2.4 2 15 Houlihan Lokey 1,826.00 2.4 10 16 William Blair & Co 1,662.06 2.2 9 17 Centerview Partners LLC 1,620.55 2.1 2 18 Greenhill & Co, LLC 1,500.81 2.0 3 19 GCA Savvian Group Corp 1,420.50 1.8 7 20 TD Securities Inc 1,408.08 1.8 4 21 Perella Weinberg Partners LP 1,202.06 1.6 1 22 Raymond James Financial Inc 1,138.75 1.5 11 23 Robert W Baird & Co Inc 1,138.23 1.5 2 24 Sumitomo Mitsui Finl Grp Inc 1,062.59 1.4 2 25 Sagent Advisors Inc 1,058.67 1.4 3 Subtotal with Financial Advisor 66,653.88 86.7 278 Subtotal without Financial Advisor 10,251.09 13.3 1,264 Industry Total 76,904.97 100.0 1,542

wait, where is Lazard?

 

GS, MS, CS and Qatalyst are the legit names in the Valley. JPM and DB are both secondary players, though JPM is throwing it's balance sheet around and winning a ton of deals thanks to crazy cheap financings. As an analyst though, I'd probably go to Qatalyst - for the size of their office they're destroying people.

 

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