
Goldman Sachs and UBS have secured their positions because the main mergers and acquisitions (M&A) monetary advisers within the Asia-Pacific (APAC) area for the primary three quarters (Q1-Q3) of 2025 when it comes to worth and quantity, respectively.
An evaluation of the monetary offers database of information and analytics firm GlobalData reveals that Goldman Sachs led the worth desk by advising on $14.5bn value of offers, and UBS led when it comes to quantity by advising on a complete of twenty-two offers.

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GlobalData lead analyst Aurojyoti Bose stated: “UBS was the highest adviser by quantity throughout Q1-Q3 2024 and regardless of registering a year-on-year decline, it retained the management place by this metric throughout Q1-Q3 2025. Aside from main quantity, UBS additionally occupied the ninth place by worth throughout Q1-Q3 2025.
“In the meantime, the full worth of offers suggested by Goldman Sachs registered greater than a 10x year-on-year bounce throughout Q1-Q3 2025. Resultantly, its rating by worth took a leap from the twenty eighth place to the highest place. 4 of the 14 offers suggested by Goldman Sachs throughout Q1-Q3 2025 have been billion-dollar offers.
“The involvement in these big-ticket offers helped the New York-based funding financial institution register an enormous bounce when it comes to worth and occupy the highest spot by this metric. It additionally held the seventh place by quantity throughout Q1-Q3 2025.”
When it comes to worth, Evercore took the second spot by advising on $11.1bn value of offers, adopted by JP Morgan with $10.5bn, Morgan Stanley with $10bn and Mitsubishi UFJ Monetary with $9.2bn.
Ernst & Younger bought the second place within the quantity desk with 18 offers, adopted by Nomura with 17 offers, Singhi Advisors with 14 offers and PwC with 13 offers.
GlobalData’s league tables are based mostly on the real-time monitoring of 1000’s of firm web sites, advisory agency web sites and different dependable sources out there on the secondary area. A devoted crew of analysts displays all these sources to assemble 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.

