New S&P Data: Megadeals in payments, brokerage sectors shape 2019 M&A advisory league tables

Jacob Wolinsky

Published onJanuary 15, 2020

Updated on January 15, 2020

S&P Global Market Intelligence published its 2019 M&A advisory league tables today. Key highlights include:

Q4 2019 hedge fund letters, conferences and more

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC worked on the two biggest deals by value in the financial technology and payments space in 2019, helping it to top the advisory rankings.
Bank of America Securities worked on seven deals in 2019, the most among deal advisers in the fintech and payments space.
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC ranked second by deal value, having advised Fiserv on the First Data deal and Global Payments on the TSYS acquisition.
Credit Suisse (USA) Inc., Centerview Partners LLC and Morgan Stanley also made it to the top of the rankings with their work on the FIS/Worldpay deal, with Credit Suisse (USA) and Morgan Stanley advising Worldpay and Centerview Partners advising FIS.

Please find the relevant charts below and here’s a link to the full analysis.

Jacob Wolinsky

Jacob Wolinsky is the ex-Founder of Valuewalk.com (founded 2011, sold 2023). He is founder of HedgeFundAlpha (formerly ValueWalk Premium), a hedge fund focused intelligence service for institutional investors. Prior to founding Valuewalk, Jacob covered small caps, worked recruiting members for a large hedge fund community and freelance financial journalism. Jacob lives with his wife and five kids in Passaic Park NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com. For confidential inquires email me for my Signal ID. Other methods of secure communication are also available. FD: Most of my portfolio is in I mostly purchase broad-based ETFs, mutual funds or individual bonds - I do this for performance reasons and to avoid any potential conflict of interest or occasional receipt of insider information. I will disclose if I have a stake in any company, but in general I have few stocks and I avoid any trading especially around topics I am covering.

New S&P Data: Megadeals in payments, brokerage sectors shape 2019 M&A advisory league tables

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