Investment BankNumber of
Deals		 Investment BankValue ($bil)
     
Stifel/KBW62 Goldman Sachs & Co27.4
JP Morgan61 Morgan Stanley26.6
Goldman Sachs & Co58 JP Morgan26.4
Morgan Stanley56 Barclays24.2
Barclays51 Credit Suisse23.6
Bank of America Merrill Lynch50 Bank of America Merrill Lynch19.9
Credit Suisse47 Citi17.6
RBC Capital Markets45 Evercore Partners17.1
Evercore Partners44 Lazard15.7
Houlihan Lokey44 Jefferies LLC15.5
Citi43 RBC Capital Markets12.7
Sandler O'Neill Partners42 Deutsche Bank11.6
Lazard40 Houlihan Lokey10.7
Raymond James Financial Inc37 Wells Fargo & Co10.3
Jefferies LLC37 UBS9.0
Wells Fargo & Co32 Moelis & Co8.8
Deutsche Bank32 Stifel/KBW8.7
Moelis & Co25 Macquarie Group6.7
William Blair & Co24 Centerview Partners LLC6.3
PricewaterhouseCoopers24 BMO Capital Markets6.1
Robert W Baird & Co Inc22 Raymond James Financial Inc5.9
UBS21 Robert W Baird & Co Inc5.6
Piper Jaffray Cos20 Sandler O'Neill Partners5.3
Macquarie Group20 William Blair & Co5.1
KPMG18 Rothschild4.8
Deloitte18 Perella Weinberg Partners LP3.8
Rothschild18 PricewaterhouseCoopers3.6
Centerview Partners LLC14 Qatalyst Partners3.4
Simmons & Co International14 Simmons & Co International3.4
BMO Capital Markets13 Piper Jaffray Cos3.2
Stephens Inc12 Tudor Pickering & Co LLC3.1
Duff & Phelps11 Deloitte2.9
Needham & Co LLC11 Ernst & Young LLP2.6
Ernst & Young LLP10 Stephens Inc2.4
Tudor Pickering & Co LLC10 KPMG2.3
Lincoln International9 Nomura2.1
Sterne Agee & Leach Inc9 Blackstone Group LP2.1
IMAP8 Greenhill & Co, LLC1.8
Perella Weinberg Partners LP8 Scotiabank1.7
GCA Savvian Group Corp8 GCA Savvian Group Corp1.5
Fig Partners LLC7 Gresham Partners1.4
Canaccord Genuity7 Guggenheim Securities LLC1.4
DA Davidson & Co Inc7 PNC Financial Services Group1.2
SunTrust Banks7 RBS1.1
Scotiabank6 Leerink Partners LLC1.0
PNC Financial Services Group6 Duff & Phelps1.0
Hovde Financial, Inc.6 Sterne Agee & Leach Inc1.0
Qatalyst Partners6 Oppenheimer Holdings Inc1.0
Leerink Partners LLC6 CIBC World Markets Inc1.0
Roth Capital Partners Inc5 Sawaya Segalas & Co LLC.9
Mizuho Financial Group5   
AGC Partners5   
Mooreland Partners LLC5   
GMP Capital Corp5   
Nomura5   
Generational Equity5   
FBR Capital Markets Corp5   
BDO5   
     
Source: Thomson Reuters    
Editor's Note: To measure activity in the middle market, Mergers & Acquisitions looks at transactions that fulfill several requirements: Deals must have a value of roughly $1 billion or less; they must be completed (not just announced) within the timeframe designated; and they must include at least one U.S. company in the role of buyer and/or seller. Excluded from our charts are: recapitalizations; self-tenders; exchange offers; repurchases; stake purchases; and transactions with undisclosed values, buyers or sellers. Our data provider is Thomson Reuters, which updates its databases continuously. We use the data available at press time. For this article, data was collected on Dec. 31, 2014.

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