Morgan Stanley has secured the main place as a monetary adviser by deal worth in South & Central America’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) sector for the primary three quarters (Q1-Q3) of 2025, with Clairfield Worldwide taking the lead in deal quantity.
This rating is based on a league desk launched by GlobalData, a number one information and analytics agency.
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An evaluation of GlobalData’s monetary offers database exhibits that Morgan Stanley’s advisory companies have been looked for offers price a complete of $12.5bn, positioning it on the forefront when it comes to worth.
Clairfield Worldwide, in the meantime, led in deal quantity by advising on six transactions.
GlobalData lead analyst Aurojyoti Bose stated: “There was an year-on-year (YoY) enhance within the complete variety of offers suggested by Clairfield Worldwide throughout Q1-Q3 2025 and subsequently its rating by quantity improved from fifteenth to the highest place.
“Morgan Stanley registered a large YoY bounce within the complete worth of offers suggested by it throughout Q1-Q3 2025 as a result of involvement in big-ticket offers. In reality, it was the one monetary adviser to surpass $10bn complete deal worth mark throughout Q1-Q3 2025. It’s noteworthy that the 2 offers suggested by the agency throughout Q1-Q3 2025 have been billion-dollar offers.”
Within the race for worth, Jefferies claimed the second spot by advising on offers price $9.3bn, whereas Mizuho Monetary Group adopted carefully with $9bn. RBC Capital Markets and Financial institution of America accomplished the highest 5 with $4.9bn and $4.4bn in offers, respectively.
For deal quantity, UBS took the second spot with 5 offers. Though Lazard and Rothschild & Co suggested on 4 offers every, Lazard took the third place with increased deal worth. Citi took the fifth place with three 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 group 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 info, the corporate additionally seeks submissions of offers from main advisers.
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