World’s best bank for advisory 2016: Morgan Stanley

Awards for Excellence 2016

Also shortlisted:

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Goldman Sachs

Lazard

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In a great year for advisers working on large, complex and often cross-border M&A deals, all the world’s big universal banks can produce long lists of advisory credits on transformative multi-billion dollar transactions.

Morgan Stanley has its own long list, having advised, among others: Lafarge on its $46 billion merger with Holcim and the combined company’s subsequent €6.5 billion disposal of assets to CRH to meet regulatory requirements; ACE on its $26 billion acquisition of Chubb, the largest-ever US insurance deal; China Unicom on its sale together with two other operators of $33.7