Africa’s best bank for advisory: Standard Bank

Getting M&A right in Africa is not easy – big-ticket transactions are rare, and deal flow tends to come in fits and starts – but Standard Bank has got it down to a fine art.

Getting M&A right in Africa is not easy – big-ticket transactions are rare, and deal flow tends to come in fits and starts – but Standard Bank has got it down to a fine art.

The South Africa-based lender’s mergers-and-advisory team is made up of 40 full-time employees, and focuses primarily on seven markets, most notably South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana. Collectively, the team completed six M&A transactions in the full year 2023 – more than any other financial institution – worth a total of $8.43

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