Top 10 M&A financial advisers in North America for 2020 revealed

January 15, 2021

GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, has revealed its league tables for top 10 financial advisers by value and volume in North America for 2020 in its report, ‘Global & North America M&A Review & Financial Adviser League tables 2020’.

According to GlobalData’s M&A report, a total 12,950 M&A deals were announced during 2020, marking a 7.1% decrease over the 13,937 deals announced in 2019. The deal value decreased by 14.9% from $1.5tn in 2019 to $1.3tn in 2020.

Top Adviser by Value and Volume

Goldman Sachs emerged as the top financial adviser for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) by both value and volume in North America for 2020, having advised on 218 deals worth $459.8bn.

GlobalData lead analyst Aurojyoti Bose said: “Goldman Sachs was the only firm that managed to advise on more than 200 deals, including eight mega deals, valued more than or equal to $10bn. Involvement in such high-value transactions helped the firm to also occupy the top spot by value.”

Morgan Stanley occupied the second position in GlobalData’s ranking of financial advisers for M&As in North America by value with 148 deals worth $430.9bn, followed by Bank of America with 130 deals worth a total $346.6bn and JP Morgan with 150 deals worth $332.6bn.

Houlihan Lokey occupied the second position by volume with 152 deals worth $34.9bn followed by JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley. Goldman Sachs also remained the top adviser both in terms of value and volume in the US, which is the key North American market.

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In Canada, CIBC Capital Markets occupied top spot by value while RBC Capital Markets held the top spot by volume.

GlobalData’s league tables are based on the real-time tracking of thousands of company websites, advisory firm websites and other reliable sources available on the secondary domain. A dedicated team of analysts monitors all these sources to gather in-depth details for each deal, including adviser names.