JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley top 2025 retail M&A advisory rankings
JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley have emerged as the leading mergers and acquisitions (M&A) financial advisers in the global retail sector for 2025, based on deal value and deal count, respectively.
Data drawn from GlobalData’s Financial Deals Database shows that JPMorgan ranked first by the total value of transactions, advising on retail M&A worth $44.5bn during the year.
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Morgan Stanley recorded the highest number of mandates in the sector, working on 11 announced deals.
GlobalData lead analyst Aurojyoti Bose said: “Morgan Stanley advised on some big-ticket deals, which helped it occupy the second position by value as well. The American multinational investment bank and financial services company advised on five billion-dollar deals, including a mega deal valued at more than $10bn.
“Meanwhile, JPMorgan advised on eight billion-dollar deals that also included a mega deal. The global investment bank also held the fourth position by volume in 2025.”
In value terms, Morgan Stanley followed JPMorgan in second place with $37.9bn in advised retail deals.
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By GlobalDataGoldman Sachs ranked third with $33.2bn, Citi was fourth with $29.2bn, and UBS completed the top five with $28.4 bn.
On a volume basis, UBS shared the upper ranks with 11 transactions, alongside Morgan Stanley.
Rothschild & Co also advised on 11 deals while JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs each worked on nine deals in the retail segment in 2025.
GlobalData’s league tables are based on the real-time tracking of thousands of company websites, advisory firm websites and other reliable sources available on the secondary domain. A dedicated team of analysts monitors all these sources to gather in-depth details for each deal, including adviser names.
To ensure further robustness of the data, the company also seeks submissions of deals from leading advisers.
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