Long-term relationships helped propel a few investment bankers to the top of the bank and thrift lead banker rankings in the bank space in the first half of 2017.
With only a handful of multibillion dollar deals surfacing in the first six months of 2017, investment bankers landing those engagements were vaulted to the top of the lead banker rankings. And it seems that familiarity mattered to buyers and sellers as they employed advisers with whom they often had considerable history.
