M&A advisers: Smaller advisers win big on telecoms deal

The $67 billion AT&T/BellSouth merger catapults Evercore and Rohatyn up the league tables.

With BellSouth out of the picture, there are few large acquisition targets left in the US telecoms sector

The $67 billion merger of US telecommunications firms AT&T and BellSouth is the latest in a long line of jumbo telecoms link-ups in recent years. The deal itself is spectacular primarily because of its size. But one tantalizing detail in the long-running story lies in just who was advising buyer AT&T. BellSouth, unsurprisingly, chose global institutions Goldman Sachs and Citigroup.

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