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Through June 30. Ranked by number of announced deals
(Excluding terminated deals)
Rank Firm No. of deals
1 Lazard Freres & Co. 4
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co 4
Salomon Smith Barney 4
4 Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. 3
5 Goldman, Sachs & Co. 2
6 Berkshire Capital 1
BT Alex. Brown/ Wolfensohn 1
Charles Webb & Co. (3) 1
Cohane Rafferty Securities (1) 1
Duff and Phelps (1) 1
First Annapolis Captial (1) 1
Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co. 1
McDonald & Co. (1) 1
Merrill Lynch & Co. (1) 1
Prudential Securities (1) 1
RSM International (1) 1
Ryan, Beck & Co. 1
Source: Sheshunoff Information Services Inc., Austin, Tex.
(1) Did not respond to survey. (2) Value not available for at least one
