Ernst & Young retained its status as the Most Active
Transaction Advisor for Mergers & Acquisitions deals in the Venture
Intelligence League Tables with 60 points (across 27 qualifying deals) during calendar
2012. Ambit Corporate Finance
finished second with 34 points (across 9 deals) while Deloitte and PwC
followed close for the third spot with 32 points each. Ambit topped the charts
in terms of value of deals advised (including Diageo's $2 billion acquisition of United Breweries).
The Venture Intelligence League Tables, the first such
initiative exclusively tracking transactions involving India-based companies,
are based on volume of PE and M&A transactions (combined with credits based
on fulfilment of criteria) advised by Transaction and Legal Advisory firms.
E&Y advised M&A deals during 2012 included Panasonic Corp's acquisition of Firepro
Systems and the acquisition of Suvi
Info Management by Jagran Media. PwC advised 20 deals while Deloitte
advised 17 deals during the same period. Other transaction advisors who had
advised a significant number of M&A deals during the year include Ambit
Corporate Finance (9 deals), Kotak
Investment Banking (8 deals), MAPE (6 deals) and Avendus (5 deals).
E&Y were pure play financial advisors to 11 deals,
followed by followed by Ambit Corporate Finance (9 deals) and MAPE (6 deals). E&Y also advised 8
domestic deals while Ambit topped the inbound deals advisors list with 5 deals.
MAPE was the leading outbound deals advisor with 5 deals. Some of the new
entrants to this year’s M&A league tables included Axis Capital (erstwhile Enam Securities), Global TrustCapital Finance and
Akasam Consulting.
The full league table for the Most Active Transaction
Advisor for Mergers & Acquisitions deals can be viewed online at http://ventureintelligence.in/leagueib-ma.htm
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