| 2008 Investment Banking League Table (Ranking of Volume of Activity) | |||||||||
| Firm | Global Merger Dollar Volume | Global Merger Number of Deals | U.S. Investment Grade Debt | U.S. High Yield Debt | Global Equity Volume | Eurobond | Global Convertible Volume | Aggregate Rank | |
| J.P. Morgan | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 1 | |
| Goldman Sachs | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 3 | 2 | |
| Citigroup | 5 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 3 | |
| Morgan Stanley | 3 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 6 | 4 | |
| Deutsche Bank | 6 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 5 | |
| Credit Suisse | 7 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 8 | 6 | |
| UBS | 4 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 7 | |
| Bank of America / Merrill | 12 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 1 | 8 | |
| Barclays / Lehman | 8 | 30 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 9 | |
| Royal Bank of Scotland | 15 | 22 | 11 | 10 | 19 | 4 | 18 | 10 | |
| BNP Paribas | 13 | 18 | 13 | 12 | 22 | 5 | -- | 11 | |
| HSBC | 20 | 27 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 3 | 47 | 12 | |
| RBC | 30 | 17 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 25 | 23 | 13 | |
| Nomura | 21 | 15 | 17 | -- | 15 | 30 | 11 | 14 | |
| Wachovia | 34 | 39 | 9 | 11 | 11 | -- | 10 | 15 | |
| Calyon | 22 | 41 | 13 | 28 | 12 | -- | 16 | ||
| Lazard | 10 | 12 | -- | 35 | -- | 22 | 17 | ||
| Dresdner | 45 | 53 | -- | 17 | 15 | 14 | 18 | ||
| Daiwa | 58 | 25 | 20 | -- | 33 | -- | 12 | 19 | |
| Societe Generale | 24 | 49 | -- | -- | 8 | 20 | 20 | ||
| Rothschild | 9 | 10 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 21 | ||
| CIBC | 46 | 28 | -- | 27 | -- | 19 | 22 | ||
| Macquarie Group | 43 | 19 | -- | -- | -- | 15 | 23 | ||
| Jefferies | 57 | 20 | 15 | 42 | -- | 43 | 24 | ||
| KPMG Corporate Finance | 40 | 5 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 25 | ||
| PricewaterhouseCoopers | 43 | 8 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 26 | ||
| ABN Amro | 14 | 42 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 27 | ||
| Houlihan Lokey | 51 | 16 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 28 | ||
| Mediobanca | 31 | 38 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 29 | ||
| Greenhill & Co | 18 | 63 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 30 | ||
| Fortis | 26 | 107 | 29 | -- | -- | 23 | -- | 31 | |
| Blackstone Group | 28 | 67 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 32 | ||
| Fox-Pitt Kelton | 25 | 88 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 33 | ||
| Centerview Partners | 16 | 106 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 34 | ||
| Moelis & Co | 29 | 121 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 35 | ||
| Perella Weinberg | 32 | 122 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 36 | ||
| China International Capital | 33 | 263 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 37 | ||