Mergers & Acquisitions

Principal Products:

• Corporate Sales, Divestitures and Acquisitions
• Cross-Border Transactions and Currency Hedging Strategies
• Takeover Defense
• Joint Ventures

Notable Facts:

• Approximately 65 professionals worldwide
• Completed over 250 M&A transactions with deal value of over $145 billion since the beginning of 2011
• M&A is the largest product area at Jefferies, representing approximately 50% of investment banking revenue¹
• Highest percentage of sole-advised M&A transactions of any major investment bank²
• One of Wall Street's leading sell-side advisors:
  • Approximately 70% of our M&A transactions are sell-side transactions 
  • Approximately 75% of sale assignments completed with strategic acquirers
  • Over 35% of sale assignments completed with cross-border counterparties
  • Since 2011, mean EV/EBITDA multiple of 13.5x achieved for Jefferies' public company sell-side clients versus 9.6x for the overall public sell-side market
• 2011 M&A Deal of the Year awarded by The Deal magazine: Jefferies acted as sole financial advisor to Samson Investment Company in the $7.2 billion sale to an investor group led by KKR
• 2011 Deal of the Year by the New York Times’ DealBook: Jefferies acted as sole financial advisor to iGATE Corporation in the $1.5 billion acquisition of Patni Computer Systems