Financial Advisers and Legal Counsel

+++ For top 75 bank mergers announced in first half of 1998 Listed in order of deal value

part 1 of 5

Buyer Seller

1 Travelers Group Inc. Citicorp

2 NationsBank Corp. BankAmerica Corp.

3 Norwest Corp. Wells Fargo & Co.

4 Banc One Corp. First Chicago NBD Corp.

5 Washington Mutual H.F. Ahmanson & Co.

6 Regions Financial CorFirst Commercial Corp.

7 California Federal BaGolden State Bancorp Inc.

8 Union Planters Corp. Magna Group

9 Astoria Financial CorLong Island Bancorp

10 Roslyn Bancorp TR Financial Corp.

11 Charter One FinancialAlbank Financial Corp.

12 First Hawaiian BancWest Corp

13 Fifth Third Bancorp State Savings Co.

14 National City Corp. Fort Wayne National Corp.

15 Fifth Third Bancorp CitFed Bancorp

16 Star Banc Corp. Trans Financial

17 Mercantile Bancorp, SFirstbank of Illinois Co.

18 Citizens Bancshares Mid Am

19 Zions Bancorp Sumitomo Bank of California

20 Commercial Federal CoFirst Colorado Bancorp

21 Old Kent Financial CoFirst Evergreen Corp.

22 First Midwest BancorpHeritage Financial Services

23 First Security Corp. California State Bank

24 Republic Security FinFirst Palm Beach Bancorp

West Palm Beach

25 First American Corp. Pioneer Bancshares

26 Mercantile Bancorp, SCBT Corp.

27 FirstMerit Corp. Security First Corp.

28 Cullen/Frost Bankers Overton Bancshares

29 BB&T Corp. Maryland Federal Bancorp

30 First Charter Corp. HFNC Financial Corp.

31 Hubco IBS Financial Corp.

32 Undisclosed Investor East-West Bank

33 Hubco Dime Financial Corp.

34 Union Planters Corp. AmBanc Corp.

35 Commercial Federal CoAmerUs Bank

36 Fidelity National FinMatrix Capital Corp.

37 Mercantile Bancorp, SFirst Financial Bancorp

38 St. Paul Bancorp Beverly Bancorp

39 SouthTrust Corp. American Banks of Florida

40 Banco Bilbao Vizcaya PonceBank

41 Summit Bancorp NSS Bancorp

42 State Finl. Services Home Bancorp of Elgin

43 Compass Bank Sandwich Bancorp

44 Premier Bancshares Button Gwinnett Financial Corp.

45 Second Bancorp WarreTrumbull Financial Corp.

46 UCBH Holdings United Commercial Bank

47 Regions Financial CorEtowah Bank

48 Union Planters Corp. Merchants Bancshares

49 BancFirst Corp. AmQuest Financial Corp.

50 Mercantile Bancorp, SFinl. Svcs Corp. of the Midwest

52 Signal Corp. First Shenango Bancorp

53 Union Planters Corp. TransFlorida Bank

54 Synovus Financial CorCommunity Bank Capital Corp.

51 Western Bancorp Bank of Los Angeles

55 United Bankshares Fed One Bancorp

56 Union Planters Corp. CB&T

57 Mid-State Bank BSM Bancorp

58 Anchor Financial CorpComSouth Bankshares

59 Old National Bancorp Southern Bancshares Ltd.

60 Bancorp South Alabama Bancorp

61 Fulton Financial CorpAmbassador Bank of Commonwealth,

Allentown

62 Charter One FinancialCS Financial Corp.

63 Hibernia Corp. Peoples Holding Corp.

64 Valley National BancoWayne Bancorp

65 Hibernia Corp. Martex Bancshares

66 One Valley Bancorp, CSummit Bankshares

67 InterWest Bancorp Pacific Northwest Bank

68 BancorpSouth Merchants Capital Corp.

69 Colonial BancGroup, MFirst Macon Bank & Trust

70 Hancock Holding Co. American Security Bancshares

71 German American Banco1st Bancorp

72 First American Corp. Middle Tennessee Bank

73 Union Planters Corp. First National Bancshares

74 Carolina First Corp. First NB of Pickens County

75 Frandsen Financial CoTaylor Bancshares

Source: Sheshunoff Information Services Inc.

part 2 of 5

Buyer's Financial advisers

1 In house

2 Merrill Lynch & Co.

NationsBanc Montgomery Securities Inc.

3 Goldman, Sachs & Co.

4 Merrill Lynch & Co.

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co

5 Lehman Brothers

6 JP Morgan Securities

7 Goldman, Sachs & Co.

8 Stifel, Nicolaus & Co.

9 Lehman Brothers

10 Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP

11 Lehman Brothers

12 Goldman, Sachs & Co.

JP Morgan Securities

13 Salomon Smith Barney Inc.

14 UBS Securities

NationsBanc Montgomery Securities Inc.

15 Salomon Smith Barney Inc.

16 Credit Suisse First Boston Corp.

17 UBS Securities

18 Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP

19 Merrill Lynch & Co.

20 Merrill Lynch & Co.

21 Not available

22 Goldman, Sachs & Co.

23 JP Morgan Securities

24 Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP

25 Salomon Smith Barney Inc.

26 In house

27 Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co

28 Credit Suisse First Boston Corp.

29 In house

30 Wheat First Securities Inc.

31 In house

32 Not available

33 In house

34 Stifel, Nicolaus & Co.

35 Merrill Lynch & Co.

36 NationsBanc Montgomery Securities Inc.

37 Not available

38 Merrill Lynch & Co.

39 Not available

40 Not available

41 Not available

42 Everen Securities, Inc.

43 McConnell, Budd & Downes Inc.

Ryan, Beck & Co.

44 Brown, Burke Capital Partners, Inc.

45 McDonald & Co.

46 Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP

47 In house

48 Not available

49 In house

50 Not available

52 Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc.

53 Not available

54 Not available

51 Belle Plaine Partners

55 Not available

56 Not available

57 Hoefer & Arnett Inc.

Van Kasper & Co.

58 Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP

59 Not available

60 Not available

61 In house

62 Not available

63 In house

64 Not available

65 Not available

66 Not available

67 Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP

68 Not available

69 Not available

70 Not available

71 Not available

72 Not available

73 Not available

74 Not available

75 Not available

part 3 of 5

Buyer's legal counsel

1 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

2 Smith Helms Mulliss & Moore, LLP

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

3 Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

4 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

5 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Foster Pepper & Shefelman

6 Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville

Alston & Bird LLP

7 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

8 Alston & Bird LLP

9 Thacher Proffitt & Wood

10 Muldoon, Murphy & Faucette

11 Silver, Freedman & Taff LLP

12 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Sullivan & Cromwell

13 Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton

14 Not available

15 Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton

16 In house; Taft, Stettinius & Hollister

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

17 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

18 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Squire, Sanders & Dempsey

19 Hogan & Hartson

Sullivan & Cromwell

20 Housley Kantarian & Bronstein PC

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

21 Warner Norcross & Judd LLP

22 Hinshaw & Culbertson

Sullivan & Cromwell

23 Ray, Quinney & Nedbacker

24 Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Gunster, Yoakley, Valdes-Fauli & Stewart

25 Arnold & Porter

26 Thompson Coburn

27 Brouse & McDowell

28 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

29 Arnold & Porter

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC

30 Alston & Bird LLP

31 Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch

32 Elias, Matz, Tiernan & Herrick

33 Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch

34 Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs

35 Fitzgerald, Schorr, Barmettler & Brennan

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

36 Stradling, Yocca, Carlson & Rauth

37 Thompson Coburn

38 Hogan & Hartson

39 Bradley, Arant, Rose & White LLP

40 Not available

41 Thompson Coburn

42 Foley & Lardner

43 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Foley, Hoag & Eliot LLP

44 Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC

45 Not available

46 Elias, Matz, Tiernan & Herrick

47 Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville

Alston & Bird LLP

48 Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs

49 In house

50 Thompson Coburn

52 Silver, Freedman & Taff LLP

Critchfield, Critchfield & Johnston

53 Alston & Bird LLP

54 Not available

51 Sullivan & Cromwell

55 Sullivan & Cromwell

56 Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs

57 Reitner & Stuart

58 Gerrish & McCreary, PC

59 Not available

60 Waller Landsen Dortch & Davis

61 Barley, Snyder, Cooper & Barber

62 Silver, Freedman & Taff LLP

63 In house

64 Pitney, Hardin, Kipp & Szuch

65 Not available

66 Sullivan & Cromwell

Jackson & Kelly

67 Graham & Dunn

68 Waller Landsen Dortch & Davis

69 Miller, Hamilton, Snider & Odom

70 Not available

71 Not available

72 Arnold & Porter

73 Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs

In house

74 Not available

75 Lindquist & Vennum P.LLP

part 4 of 5

Seller's financial advisers

1 In house

2 Goldman, Sachs & Co.

3 Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Credit Suisse First Boston Corp.

4 Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Lazard Freres & Co. LLC

5 Credit Suisse First Boston Corp.

6 Keefe, Bruyette & Woods

7 Credit Suisse First Boston Corp.

8 Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities

9 Salomon Smith Barney Inc.

10 Goldman, Sachs & Co.

11 Merrill Lynch & Co.

12 Merrill Lynch & Co.

13 Keefe, Bruyette & Woods

14 Keefe, Bruyette & Woods

15 Keefe, Bruyette & Woods

16 Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette Securities

17 PaineWebber Group Inc.

18 McDonald & Co.

19 NationsBanc Montgomery Securities Inc.

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

20 Wallach Co.

21 Hovde Financial Inc.

22 McDonald & Co.

23 Keefe, Bruyette & Woods

24 Keefe, Bruyette & Woods

25 Keefe, Bruyette & Woods

Carson Medlin Co.

26 Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co

27 Charles Webb & Co.

28 Keefe, Bruyette & Woods

29 Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP

30 Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP

31 Ryan, Beck & Co.

32 Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co.

33 A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc.

First Albany Corp.

34 McDonald & Co.

35 Hovde Financial Inc.

ABN Amro Inc.

36 Piper Jaffray Inc.

37 ABN Amro Inc.

38 McDonald & Co.

39 Wheat First Securities Inc.

40 Keefe, Bruyette & Woods

41 Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP

42 Hovde Financial Inc.

43 Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP

RP Financial

44 Carson Medlin Co.

45 Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP

46 Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP

47 T. Stephen Johnson & Associates Inc.

48 Price Waterhouse LLP Corporate Finance

49 Howe Barnes Investments Inc.

50 Howe Barnes Investments Inc.

52 McDonald & Co.

53 Alex Sheshunoff & Co.

54 Brown, Burke Capital Partners

51 Wedbush Morgan Securities

55 Ryan, Beck & Co.

56 Alex Sheshunoff & Co.

57 Carpenter & Co.

58 Baxter Fentriss & Co.

59 Professional Bank Services Inc.

60 Alex Sheshunoff & Co.

61 Danielson Associates Inc.

62 McDonald & Co.

63 Professional Bank Services Inc.

64 Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP

65 Alex Sheshunoff & Co.

66 Scott & Stringfellow Inc.

67 Columbia Financial Advisors

68 Southard Financial

69 T. Stephen Johnson & Associates Inc.

70 Brown, Burke Capital Partners Inc.

71 Not available

72 Carson Medlin Co.

73 T. Stephen Johnson & Associates Inc.

74 Orr Management Co.

75 Not available

part 5 of 5

Seller's legal counsel

1 Shearman & Sterling

2 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

3 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Sullivan & Cromwell

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

4 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Sullivan & Cromwell

5 Sullivan & Cromwell

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

6 Friday, Eldredge & Clark

Arnold & Porter

7 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

8 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

9 Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

10 Thacher Proffitt & Wood

11 Simpson Thacher & Bartl

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

12 Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton

Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP

13 Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease

14 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

15 Silver, Freedman & Taff LLP

16 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

17 Suelthaus & Walsh

Brown & Platt

18 Sullivan & Cromwell

19 Brobeck Phleger & Harrison

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

20 Malizia, Spidi, Sloane & Fisch PC

21 Silver, Freedman & Taff LLP;

Ruff, Weidenaar & Reidy, Ltd.

22 Barack, Ferrazzano, Kirschbaum,

Perlman & Nagelberg

23 Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP

24 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

25 Alston & Bird LLP

26 Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs

27 Silver, Freedman & Taff LLP

28 Sullivan & Cromwell

29 Elias, Matz, Tiernan & Herrick

30 Elias, Matz, Tiernan & Herrick

31 Elias, Matz, Tiernan & Herrick

32 Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP

O'Melveny & Myers

33 Day, Berry & Howard

34 Leagre Chandler & Millard

35 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

36 Jenkens & Gilchrist PC

37 Sidley & Austin

38 Lord, Bissell & Brook

39 Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson

40 McConnell Valdes

41 Tyler, Cooper & Alcorn

42 Thacher Proffitt & Wood

43 Housley Kantarian & Bronstein PC

44 Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy

45 Not available

46 Patton Boggs LLP

47 Kilpatrick Stockton

48 Winstead Sechrest & Minick

49 Crowe & Dunlevy

50 Winthrop & Weinstine

52 Malizia, Spidi, Sloane & Fisch PC

53 Zedeck & Zedeck

54 Powell, Goldstein Frazier & Murphy

51 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Horgan, Rosen, Beckham & Coren

55 Elias, Matz, Tiernan & Herrick

56 Jenkens & Gilchrist PC

57 Knecht & Hansen

58 Sinkler & Boyd, P.A.

59 Lindquist & Vennum PLLP

60 Bradley, Arant, Rose & White LLP

61 Fredric C. Jacobs

Barley, Snyder, Senft & Cohen

62 Not available

63 Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis P.A.

64 Malizia, Spidi, Sloane & Fisch PC

65 Not available

66 Not available

67 Keller Rohrback LLP

68 Gerrish & McCreary PC

69 Arnall, Golden & Gregory LLP

70 Correro Fishman Haygood et al

71 Not available

72 Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell

73 Balch & Bingham

74 Not available

75 Not available ===

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