Financial institution of America and Rothschild & Co have secured the main positions as monetary advisers in Europe’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) sector for the primary three quarters (Q1-Q3) of 2025, by way of worth and quantity, respectively.
As per the monetary advisers league desk by knowledge and analytics firm GlobalData, Financial institution of America topped the charts for the very best worth of suggested offers, with a cumulative value of $49.4bn.
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Rothschild & Co led the sector in deal quantity, having suggested on 81 transactions.
GlobalData lead analyst Aurojyoti Bose mentioned: “There was greater than a three-fold year-on-year (YoY) bounce within the whole worth of offers suggested by Financial institution of America throughout Q1-Q3 2025. Resultantly, its rating by worth additionally took a leap from the 13th place to the highest spot. Throughout Q1-Q3 2025, Financial institution of America suggested on seven billion-dollar offers, which additionally included one mega deal valued round $20bn.
“The involvement in these big-ticket offers helped the funding financial institution register a large bounce by way of worth and high the chart by this metric.
“In the meantime, Rothschild & Co was the highest adviser by quantity throughout Q1-Q3 2024, and regardless of registering a year-on-year decline, it retained its management place by this metric throughout Q1-Q3 2025. Other than main by quantity, Rothschild & Co additionally held the fifth place by worth in the course of the interval.”
Trailing Financial institution of America in deal worth, Goldman Sachs suggested on transactions amounting to $46.6bn and thereby securing the second spot.
JP Morgan adopted with $37.4bn, with Barclays and Rothschild & Co finishing the highest 5, advising on offers value $34.5bn and $27.4bn, respectively.
By way of deal quantity, PwC claimed the second spot, advising on 74 offers. Though Clearwater additionally suggested on 74 offers, it took the third place attributable to decrease deal worth.
Houlihan Lokey and Ernst & Younger additionally featured among the many high 5, advising on 71 and 69 offers, respectively.
GlobalData’s league tables are primarily based on the real-time monitoring of 1000’s of firm web sites, advisory agency web sites and different dependable sources obtainable on the secondary area. A devoted workforce of analysts screens all these sources to collect in-depth particulars for every deal, together with adviser names.
To make sure additional robustness to the information, the corporate additionally seeks submissions of offers from main advisers.
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