UBS Group AG remained on the top of the South Korean merger and acquisition (M&A) advisory market as of the end of the third quarter after adding the sale of Ecorbit Co.valued at 2.1 trillion won ($1.6 billion) to its list of deal arrangements.KB Securities Co.again dominated the country’s capital market deals, including both equity and debt sales worth 1.06 trillion won and 13.47 trillion won, respectively, in the first nine months of this year.
Samil PricewaterhouseCoopers (Samil PwC) ranked third after managing a total of 35 deals valued at 4.48 trillion won in total after outperforming its rivals in cross-border deals, including the sale of Korean medical device maker Jeisys Medical Inc.to French healthcare-focused private equity firm Archimed in a 990-billion-won deal and a $340-million sale of Korea’s No.3 coffeeshop operator Compose Coffee Co.to the Philippines’ largest fast-food chain Jollibee Foods Corp.
According to the league tables by The Korea Economic Daily’s capital market news outlet Market Insight and Seoul-based financial data provider FnGuide Inc.announced on Thursday, the Switzerland-headquartered multinational investment bank topped Korea’s M&A financial advisor list for the January-September period of this year after leading a total of seven major deals worth 5.02 trillion won.
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