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Moelis & Company & PwC claim the No.2 & No.3 slots Ernst & Young  (EY) topped the Venture Intelligence League Table for Transaction Advisor to M&A Deals   during 2024, advising 34 deals worth $4.1 Billion. Moelis & Company stood second advising 2 deals worth $3.9 billion. PwC followed with 18 deals worth $3.3 billion. Citi ($2.5 billion across 1 deal) and Advay Capital ($2.3 billion across 1 deal) completed the top five. Among the largest M&A deals in 2024, Citi  advised $2.5 Billion acquisition of the Indian business of American Tower Corporation by Brookfield , Advay Capital and Moelis & Company advised the $2.3 Billion acquisition of Care Hospitals by Aster DM Healthcare . Jefferies & Co., JP Morgan and Moelis & Company advised the $1.6 Billion acquisition of Bharat Serums & Vaccines by Mankind Pharma.  Among the other notable M&A deals in Q4 2024, EY advised the $685 million acquisition of ITD Cementation ...

Citi and Ernst & Young claim the No.2 & 3 slots Avendus topped the Venture Intelligence League Table for Transaction Advisor to Private Equity Transactions in 2024 (by Value) advising 25 deals worth $3.8 Billion. Citi stood second having advised  the $2.5 Billion acquisition of the Indian business of American Tower Corporation by Brookfield . Ernst & Young followed with 22 deals worth $1.64 Billion. Moelis & Company , JP Morgan and Jefferies & Co . took the fourth spot advising deals worth $1.62 Billion.  JM Financial ($1.5 Billion across 6 deals) completed the top five for 2024. Among the largest PE deals during 2024, apart from Brookfield-American Tower Corp deal advised by Citi, JP Morgan and Moelis & Company advised the $1.6 Billion exit of Advent International from Bharat Serums & Vaccines . Avendus, Barclays , and JM Financial advised the $554 million acquisition of Shriram Housing Finance by private equity firm Warburg Pincus . Avendus...

Citi and Ambit claim the No.2&3 slots Avendus topped the Venture Intelligence League Table for Transaction Advisor to Private Equity Transactions in H1’2024 advising 12 deals worth $2.4 Billion. Citi stood second, having advised 1 deal worth $2 Billion. Ambit followed with 7 deals worth $797 million. Kotak Mahindra Capital ($735 million across 2 deals) and Ernst & Young ($657 million across 7 deals) completed the top five for H1’ 2024. The  Venture Intelligence League Tables , the first such initiative exclusively tracking transactions involving India-based companies, are based on the value of PE and M&A transactions advised by Financial and Legal Advisory firms. Among the larger deals in the latest quarter, Citi, KPMG , Ernst & Young advised $2 Billion acquisition of the Indian business of American Tower Corporation by Brookfield . Avendus, Ernst & Young, JM Financial, Barclays and KPMG advised $ 554 million acquisition of Shriram Housing Finance by Warb...

Allegro Advisors and Ambit claim the No.2 & No.3 slots Ernst & Young  topped the Venture Intelligence League Table for Transaction Advisor to M&A Deals   during 2023,advising 20 deals worth $3.8 Billion. Allegro Advisors stood second advising 3 deals worth $2.4 billion. Ambit followed with 7 deals worth $2.2 billion. Avendus ($1.8 billion across 11 deals) and Jefferies & Co. ($1.1 billion across 1 deal) completed the top five. Allegro Advisors and Ernst & Young advised the  $2 Billion  majority stake acquisition by Temasek in Manipal Hospitals . Ambit advised  the $1.2 Billion acquisition of Brookfield's Road portfolio by Indinfravit Trust . Arpwood Capital, Jefferies & Co. and Ernst & Young advised the $1.1 Billion buyout of HDFC Credila by a consortium of private equity firms, including BPEA EQT and ChrysCapital . Among the larger M&A deals in Q4 2023, O3 Capital and KPMG advised the $700 million acquisition of Car...

Allegro Advisors and Ernst & Young claim the No.2&3 slot Avendus topped the Venture Intelligence League Table for Transaction Advisor to Private Equity Transactions in 2023 advising 22 deals worth $2.9 Billion. Allegro Advisors stood second advising 4 deals worth $2.5 Billion. Ernst & Young followed with 20 deals worth $1.4 Billion. Jefferies & Co. ($1.1 Billion across 1 deal) and o3 Capital ($970 million across 9 deals) completed the top five for 2023. Allegro Advisors and Ernst & Young advised $2 Billion investment in Manipal Hospitals by Temasek, the largest PE-VC investment of 2023. Jefferies & Co., Ernst & Young, Arpwood Capital advised the $1.1 Billion buyout of HDFC Credila by BPEA EQT and ChrysCapital. Avendus advised the $500 million investment attracted by Lenskart from ADIA. Among the larger private equity deals in Q4 2023, O3 Capital and KPMG advised the $700 million acquisition of Care Hospitals by Blackstone. Ambit advised the ...

JP Morgan and InCredMAPE claim the No.2 & No.3 slots Jefferies & Co topped the Venture Intelligence League Table for Transaction Advisor to M&A Deals   during H1 2023, having advised the $1.1 Billion buyout of HDFC Credila by a consortium of Private Equity investors. JP Morgan ($487 million across 1 deal) and InCredMAPE ($387 million across 2 deals) took the second and third spots respectively. o3 Capital ($211 million across 4 deals) and Investec ($152 million across 1 deal) completed the top five. The  Venture Intelligence League Tables , the first such initiative exclusively tracking transactions involving India-based companies, are based on the value of PE and M&A transactions advised by Financial and Legal Advisory firms. Among the larger M&A deals in the latest quarter, Jefferies & Co. advised t he $1.1 Billion acquisition of HDFC Credila by Baring Asia and ChrysCapital . JP Morgan acted as the advisor to the $487 million acquisition of Vires...

Ernst & Young and Ambit claim the No.2 & No.3 slots Investec topped the Venture Intelligence League Table for Transaction Advisor to M&A Deals for Q1 2023 having advised  the $152 million acquisition of Sintex-BAPL by Welspun Group.   Ernst & Young ($136 million across 6 deals) and Ambit ($74 million across 2 deals) took the second and third spots, respectively. Panini Advisors ($65 million across 1 deal), Avendus ($65 million across 2 deals) and Deloitte ($65 million across 1 deal) took the fourth spot. Singhi Advisors ($63 million across 3 deals) completed the top five. The  Venture Intelligence League Tables , the first such initiative exclusively tracking transactions involving India-based companies, are based on the value of PE and M&A transactions advised by Financial and Legal Advisory firms. Among the larger M&A deals during Q1 2023, Ernst & Young acted as the advisor to the $67 million acquisition of Sonata Finance by Kotak Mahi...

Arpwood Capital and Axis Capital claim the No.2 & No.3 slots Citi topped the Venture Intelligence League Table for Transaction Advisor to M&A Deals   during 2022, advising 4 deals worth $44.4 Billion. Arpwood Capital ($41.9 Billion across 3 deals) and Axis Capital ($41.7 Billion across 5 deals) took the second and third spots, respectively. Credit Suisse ($41.6 Billion across 2 deals) and Ambit ($41.3 Billion across 4 deals) completed the top five. Among the largest M&A deals during 2022, Citi, HSBC, IIFL Investment Banking, Motilal Oswal, Nomura, JP Morgan, Dhruva Tax Consultants, Jefferies & Co., ICICI Securities, Edelweiss Financial Services, Deloitte, Credit Suisse, Axis Capital, Arpwood Capital, Ambit, Goldman Sachs and JM Financial advised the $40 Billion merger of HDFC Limited with HDFC Bank . Allegro Advisors acted as the advisors to the $3.3 Billion acquisition of Viatris’ biosimilars business by Biocon Biologics (a subsidiary of publicly listed Bi...

Ernst & Young and JM Financial claim the No.2 & 3 slots Avendus topped the Venture Intelligence League Table for Transaction Advisor to Private Equity Transactions in 2022 advising 34 deals worth $5.4 Billion. Ernst & Young stood second advising 11 deals worth $1.25 Billion. JM Financial followed with 3 deals worth $1.04 Billion. Ambit ($1 Billion across 14 deals) and Morgan Stanley ($810 million across 2 deals) completed the top five for 2022. Avendus  advised deals included Mobile Content and News aggregator Unicorn Dailyhunt’s $805 million fundraise from Sumeru Ventures, Luxor Capital, Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, Sofina, Baillie Gifford, and CPPIB.  Ernst & Young  advised the $775 million purchase of six toll road projects from Welspun Enterprises by Actis.  Citi  and  JM Financial  advised the $593 million acquisition of IDFC Asset Management Company by a consortium comprising Bandhan Financial Holdings Limited and private ...

Citi and Arpwood Capital claim the No.2 & No.3 slots Allegro Advisors topped the Venture Intelligence League Table for Transaction Advisor to M&A Deals  for the six months ending June 2022.  Allegro Advisors advised 4 deals worth $3.35 Billion. Citi ($2.2 Billion across 3 deals) and Arpwood Capital ($1.9 Billion across 2 deals) took the second and third spots respectively. Axis Capital ($1.67 Billion across 3 deals) took the fourth spot and Credit Suisse ($1.62 Billion across 1 deal) completed the top five.  The  Venture Intelligence League Tables , the first such initiative exclusively tracking transactions involving India-based companies, are based on the value of PE and M&A transactions advised by Financial and Legal Advisory firms. Among the largest M&A deals in H1 2022, Standard Chartered Bank , Ernst & Young and PwC acted as the advisors to the $1.55 Billion acquisition of PE firm Actis' renewable energy platform, Sprng Energy, by Sh...