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Top Lead Financial Advisers Ranked by Deal Value

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Top Lead Financial Advisers Ranked by Deal Value

Top Lead Financial Advisers Ranked by Deal ValuePrimary advisers in domestic bank and thrift merger deals in the first half of 2012. Dollars in millions
Published August 14, 2012

2012
Rank
2011
Rank
Firm Deal value Number of deals
1 8 Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP* $2,864.4 18
2 2 Morgan Stanley 2,016.3 2
3 9 Keefe Bruyette & Woods Inc.* 1,181.6 14
4 1 J.P. Morgan Securities LLC 641.1 1
NR Stephens Inc. 641.1 1
6 11 Jefferies & Co. Inc. 500.0 1
7 19 Stifel Nicolaus Weisel 490.0 6
8 27 Goldman Sachs & Co. 251.3 1
9 6 RBC Capital Markets LLC 239.4 3
10 NR Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. 151.5 2
11 NR Stieven Capital Advisors LP 120.4 1
12 20 FinPro Inc.* 96.7 3
13 NR Milestone Advisors LLC* 96.4 4
14 39 D.A. Davidson & Co.* 72.7 2
15 18 Hovde Financial Inc. 66.8 4
16 49 Sterne Agee & Leach Inc. 65.8 4
17 NR Monocacy Financial Advisors LLC* 65.0 2
32 St. Charles Capital LLC 65.0 1
19 NR Davenport & Co. LLC* 64.7 3
20 33 FIG Partners LLC* 62.3 3
21 29 ParaCap Group LLC 57.0 3
22 NR Syndicated Capital Inc. 44.5 1
23 15 Commerce Street Capital LLC* 42.2 4
24 10 Endicott Group 40.5 1
NR Lutz Advisors Inc. 40.5 1
NR Sevara Partners LLC 40.5 1
27 34 Austin Associates LLC* 39.7 4
28 30 DD&F Consulting Group 34.0 1
29 13 Raymond James & Associates Inc. 27.8 1
30 24 Roth Capital Partners LLC 26.4 1
31 NR Cummings & Co. LLC 25.2 2
32 NR Donnelly Penman & Partners Inc. 21.3 1
33 38 Carson Medlin Co. 16.4 1
34 NR Boenning & Scattergood Inc.* 9.4 2
35 51 Northeast Capital & Advisory Inc. 8.3 1
36 23 Vining-Sparks IBG L.P.* 5.6 5
37 16 Scott & Stringfellow LLC 3.7 1


*Deal value for at least one deal is not available. NR = not ranked; NA = not available. In-house advisers are included. Whole deals are Included. Terminated deals are excluded. Based on announcement deal values. Year to date figures are as of June 30. In the event advisers merge or an adviser is purchased by the parent of another adviser, SNL retroactively adjusts historic rankings to the single, highest-level adviser. If the buyer is already receiving credit for a particular deal, it will not receive additional credit following the merger.

Source:

SNL Financial
, Charlottesville, Va.
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