Dealogic's western European M&A rankings
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Dealogic's western European M&A rankings

Data compiled by Dealogic shows that in 2004 the UK had the highest announced M&A volume in the European region - a total of $305.8 billion, up 45.3% from 2003. 

Morgan Stanley was the top bank in 2004 UK announced volume rankings with $71.8 billion in volume, while BNP Paribas topped the French rankings, Deutsche Bank topped German rankings and Lazard topped Italian rankings.

Overall M&A volume in the four countries was $700 billion through 6825 deals.

Here are the rankings in full:

UK Announced M&A

Advisor

Value $ million

Deals

Rank 03

1

Morgan Stanley

71, 754

46

1

2

Goldman Sachs

68,945

48

2

3

JP Morgan

63,408

59

3

4

UBS

56,636

67

4

5

Merrill Lynch

56,485

46

6

6

Citigroup

51,365

60

5

7

Cazenove

43,121

32

-

8

Rothschild

40,640

102

7

9

Lehman Brothers

32,381

24

-

10

CSFB

30,104

33

10

Grand Total

305, 836

3236



 French Announced M&A

 

...

Rank

Advisor

Value $ million

Deals

Rank 03

1

BNP Paribas

107,640

65

1

2

Rothschild

104,460

69

3

3

Morgan Stanley

95,044

15

-

4

Goldman Sachs

94,179

17

4

5

Merrill Lynch

92,111

17

6

6

Lazard

27,418

46

2

7

HSBC

23,954

20

-

8

Citigroup

23,252

15

7

9

JP Morgan

20,119

27

10



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