GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, has revealed its league tables for top 10 financial advisers by value and volume in financial services sector for Q1 2021 in its report, ‘Global and Financial Services M&A Report Financial Adviser League tables Q1 2021’.

According to GlobalData’s M&A report, a total of 908 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals were announced in the sector during Q1 2021, while deal value for the sector decreased by 16.7% from $174bn in Q1 2020 to $145bn in Q1 2021.

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Top Advisers by Value and Volume

JP Morgan was the top financial adviser for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) by both value and volume in the financial services sector for Q1 2021. It advised on 22 deals valued at $37.5bn.

GlobalData lead analyst Ravi Tokala said: “Despite a jump in volume, value for the financial services sector dropped by around 16.7% in Q1 2021 as compared with the same quarter last year, which can be mainly attributed to the absence of megadeals (valued more than $10bn) in the sector.

“JP Morgan held the top position in terms of both value and volume due to its involvement in seven billion-dollar deals (deals worth greater than or equal to $1bn). The average deal size of transactions advised by JP Morgan stood at $1.7bn.”

Lazard occupied the second position by value with six deals worth $29.5bn, followed by Barclays with 10 deals worth $17.6bn and Citi with 10 deals worth US$14.4bn.

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Goldman Sachs occupied the second position by volume with 20 deals worth $12.9bn, followed by Piper Sandler with 15 deals worth $2.8bn and Keefe Bruyette & Woods with 14 deals worth $10.7bn.

GlobalData’s league tables are based on the real-time tracking of thousands of company websites, advisory firm websites and other reliable sources available on the secondary domain. A dedicated team of analysts monitors all these sources to gather in-depth details for each deal, including adviser names.

To ensure further robustness to the data, the company also seeks submissions from leading advisers, through adviser submission forms on GlobalData’s website.