Top Lead Financial Advisers Ranked by Number of Deals
Top Lead Financial Advisers by Number of DealsPrimary advisers in domestic bank and thrift merger deals announced in 2009. Dollars in millions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 Rank | 2008 Rank | Firm | Deals | Deal value |
| 1 | 1 | Sandler O’Neill & Partners LP* | 17 | $804.2 |
| 2 | 2 | Keefe Bruyette & Woods Inc.* | 15 | 692.8 |
| 3 | 4 | Howe Barnes Hoefer & Arnett Inc.* | 8 | 31.7 |
| 4 | 13 | Hovde Financial LLC* | 6 | 485.2 |
| 3 | Stifel Nicolaus & Co. Inc.* | 6 | 451.9 | |
| 6 | 7 | Austin Associates LLC | 5 | 80.8 |
| 7 | 13 | Carson Medlin Co. | 4 | 34.2 |
| 8 | 30 | D.A. Davidson & Co.* | 3 | 28.0 |
| 30 | FinPro Inc.* | 3 | 54.0 | |
| 10 | 4 | Capital Corp. LLC | 2 | 12.6 |
| 20 | Commerce Street Capital LLC | 2 | 16.4 | |
| NR | Endicott Group | 2 | 107.8 | |
| 30 | Gerrish McCreary Smith PC | 2 | 9.9 | |
| 30 | Keller & Co. Inc.* | 2 | NA | |
| NR | Ostrowski & Co. Inc.* | 2 | 7.1 | |
| 30 | Renninger & Associates LLC* | 2 | 9.6 | |
| 13 | RP Financial LC* | 2 | 157.0 | |
| 13 | St. Charles Capital LLC | 2 | 16.8 | |
| 19 | NR | Anderson & Strudwick Inc.* | 1 | NA |
| 30 | Bank Advisory Group LLC* | 1 | NA | |
| 20 | Bank of America Merrill Lynch* | 1 | NA | |
| 30 | Baxter Fentriss & Co.* | 1 | NA | |
| NR | BroadSpan Securities LLC* | 1 | NA | |
| NR | Capital Market Securities Inc. | 1 | 10.8 | |
| NR | Cary Street Partners LLC | 1 | 105.4 | |
| NR | CCFW Inc. | 1 | 10.5 | |
| NR | Cohen & Co. Securities LLC | 1 | 11.0 | |
| 7 | Credit Suisse USA Inc.* | 1 | NA | |
| NR | CrossFirst Advisors LLC | 1 | 7.5 | |
| NR | Cummings & Co. LLC | 1 | 9.6 | |
| NR | David H. Lavine CPA LLC | 1 | 0.3 | |
| 13 | DD&F Consulting Group | 1 | 6.0 | |
| NR | FIG Partners LLC* | 1 | NA | |
| 30 | Financial Management Consulting Group LLC | 1 | 32.4 | |
| NR | First Wall Street Capital* | 1 | NA | |
| 7 | Goldman Sachs & Co. | 1 | 93.0 | |
| 7 | J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. | 1 | 239.8 | |
| NR | Kline & Associates* | 1 | NA | |
| NR | KPMG LLP* | 1 | NA | |
| 20 | Lutz Advisors Inc.* | 1 | NA | |
| NR | Milestone Advisors LLC | 1 | 11.0 | |
| NR | Millennium Global Capital LLC | 1 | 15.9 | |
| 20 | Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc.* | 1 | NA | |
| 20 | Morgan Stanley* | 1 | NA | |
| NR | National Capital LLC* | 1 | NA | |
| 30 | Orr Group LLC | 1 | 8.3 | |
| 7 | Professional Bank Services Inc. | 1 | 32.4 | |
| NR | Raymond James & Associates Inc. | 1 | 36.9 | |
| NR | RubinBrown Brokerage Services LLC | 1 | 4.6 | |
| 6 | Sheshunoff & Co. Investment Banking LP | 1 | 17.5 | |
| NR | Southard Financial | 1 | 0.6 | |
| NR | Sterne Agee & Leach Inc.* | 1 | NA | |
| NR | Strategic Risk Associates LLC* | 1 | NA | |
| NR | Varney & Associates CPAs LLC | 1 | 2.7 | |
*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. Rankings are recalculated as of Jan. 6, 2010. In 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.
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