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Top Lead Financial Advisers

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Top Lead Financial Advisers
Top Lead Financial Advisers

Primary advisers in domestic bank and trhift merger deals announced in first half (excludes hostile/unsolicited bids and terminated deals)
Published August 7, 2001

 Rank

Firm 

 Announced value (millions)  No. of deals
1 Merrill Lynch & Co.1 $21,437.80 4
2 Credit Suisse First Boston Corp.1, 4 20,969.10 3
3 Goldman, Sachs & Co.1, 2 7,592.00 3
4 Lehman Brothers1 6,281.30 4
5 Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc. 5,427.60 21
6 Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP1 1,648.10 8
7 Salomon Smith Barney2 999.5 3
8 The Robinson-Humphrey Co. LLC 526.8 2
9 Hovde Financial LLC2 472.5 5
10 McDonald Investments2, 3 400.8 5
11 Dain Rauscher Wessels 352.6 3
12 William Blair & Co. 262.5 2
13 BMO Nesbitt Burns1 219.8 1
14 Danielson Associates Inc. 201.1 3
15 Alex Sheshunoff & Co. 174.8 1
16 McConnell, Budd & Downes Inc. 167.7 3
17 Stifel, Nicolaus & Co. 167.5 3
18 Legg Mason Wood Walker Inc.1 123.9 1
19 Putnam Lovell Securities Inc.1 114 1
20 Morgan Keegan & Co. 84.4 2
21 J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.1 78.5 1
22 Ostrowski & Company Inc.1 74 1
23 Endicott Group 69.7 2
24 The Findley Group1 64.1 1
25 The Orr Group 63.9 2
26 Bank Advisory Group1 56 2
27 Allen C. Ewing & Co. 55.7 1
28 D.A. Davidson & Co.1 55.1 1
- Ragen MacKenzie1 55.1 1
30 DD&F Consulting Group 47.6 4
31 Howe Barnes Investments Inc. 42.7 1
32 Berwind Financial Group LP 39.9 1
33 Howard, Lawson & Co. LLC1 37.3 1
34 The Carson Medlin Company 35 2
35 Charles T. Meeks Company Inc. 31.6 1
36 W.Y. Campbell & Co. 30 1
37 Renninger and Associates LLC1 29.2 1
38 Hoefer & Arnett Incorporated 28.8 2
39 RP Financial 27.9 1
40 Kaplan Associates Inc. 27.4 1
41 Feldman Financial Advisors Inc.1 27 1
42 Carpenter & Company 26.6 2
43 Sterne, Agee & Leach1 25.4 1
44 Ryan, Beck & Co. 20.8 1
45 Samco Capital Markets 20.6 2
46 David A. Noyes & Co.1 15.2 1
47 Castle Creek Financial 13.6 1
48 The Capital Corporation 13 1
49 Capital Consultants of Princeton Inc. 5.2 1
- FinPro Inc. 5.2 1
51 Chaffe & Associates Inc. 2.7 1
52 Olive Corporate Finance LLC1 2.3 1
53 Austin Associates Inc.2 0 1
- Austin Financial Services Inc.2 0 1
- McGladrey & Pullen1, 2 0 1

(1) Did not respond to survey (2) Value not available for at least one deal (3) Includes Trident Securities and The Wallach Company, subsidiaries of McDonald Investments (4) Includes Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Securities, a subsidiary of Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. Source: Thomson Financial Sheshunoff Information Services (www.sheshunoff.com)
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