Milan, July 23rd, 2025 - EQUITA, the leading independent investment bank in Italy, announces the Italian M&A rankings for the first half of the year[1], which confirmed the investment banking team as #1 Italian independent financial advisor.[2]

The top positioning of EQUITA is the result of a good progress in M&A advisory recorded by the team in previous months, with 12 mandates and a total deal value above $10 billion, representing the best combined positioning ever in both rankings.

Thanks to the integration of the investment banking teams and the collaboration with the other divisions of the Group, today EQUITA confirms its key role as go-to financial advisor, assisting financial institutions, large corporates, entrepreneurs and financial sponsors executing their strategic merger and acquisition transactions.

Moreover, the partnership EQUITA – Clairfield has allowed the advisory team to execute a growing number of crossborder mandates in recent years, favored by the increasingly close collaboration with more than 400 corporate finance professionals belonging to the partnership and active in more than 30 countries worldwide.

Simone Riviera, Co-General Manager and Head of Corporate M&A at EQUITA, commented: “Today EQUITA offers a full set of M&A advisory services, covering a wide range of sectors and clients. This is the result of the investments we have made over the past few years. which led us to develop a solid track record in both public and large M&A as well as in the midmarket segment, with both domestic and crossborder mandates. We are so proud of the top positioning achieved by the team: being the #1 Italian independent M&A advisor both in terms of number of mandates and by deal value for the first time ever encourages us to look to our future with optimism, continuing investing in growth opportunities”.