PlacementTracker Publishes Q1 2017 Private Placement Market League Tables

April 12, 2017 8:38 AM EDT

NEW YORK, April 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- PlacementTracker, the leading source for data and analysis to institutions in the PIPE and Private Placement markets, today announced the most active investment banks, investors, and law firms in the U.S. private placement market for Q1 2017.

A total of $6.3 billion was raised in 225 transactions through Q1 2017. Of this amount, 1 transaction has been announced but not yet closed as of 04/10/2017.  Deal volume is up a whopping 28% (175 deals in Q1 2016) but dollar volume decreased 26% ($8.5 billion in Q1 2016).

We congratulate all of the active members of the private placement community, many of whom are long-time clients of PlacementTracker.  We are dedicated to providing access to the very best data and analytics available in our industry.

Most Active Participants Include:

The Q1 2017 U.S. Private Placement MarketInvestment Banking League Table by Number of Transactions:

Placement Agent Name

Transaction Count

Total Amount Placed

H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC

26

$459,952,096

Roth Capital Partners, LLC

12

$254,075,509

Maxim Group LLC

12

$116,440,025

Aegis Capital Corporation

11

$139,975,747

Jefferies & Company, Inc.

10

$386,608,163

Cantor Fitzgerald & Company

8

$752,313,761

Raymond James & Associates Inc.

8

$424,558,730

Canaccord Genuity Inc. (US)

7

$365,795,628

Sandler O'Neill & Partners, L.P.

6

$289,780,625

Cowen and Company, LLC

6

$197,485,599

Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., Inc.

6

$146,923,512

Chardan Capital Markets

6

$53,213,024

Piper Jaffray & Co.

5

$210,699,993

Laidlaw & Company (UK) Ltd.

5

$36,071,959

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

4

$1,115,054,978

Seaport Global Securities LLC

4

$321,293,125

Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.

4

$229,806,254

B. Riley & Co.

4

$132,665,222

Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC

4

$97,184,559

Needham & Company, LLC

4

$89,699,330

Lazard

3

$303,100,000

Stephens Inc.

3

$204,181,254

Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.

3

$92,170,000

BMO Capital Markets Corp.

3

$89,000,000

National Securities Corporation

3

$58,398,800

Investment Banking rankings exclude all 144-A Offerings, Equity Lines of Credit, At the Market Transactions, Rights Offerings, Bought Deals, and all PIPE transactions conducted by foreign issuers that trade in the U.S. on the OTC.  On transactions where an investment banking firm has acted solely as Financial Advisor, that transaction has been excluded from that firm's ranking.  Co-agented transactions award full transaction credit to all agents participating (regardless of status of lead agent or co-agent).  Data is for closed and definitive agreement transactions reported as of 04/10/2017.

The Q1 2017 U.S. Private Placement MarketInstitutional Investor League Table by Number of Transactions:

Investor Name

Transaction Count

    Total Amount Invested

Sabby Management, LLC

6

$13,682,877

Heights Capital Management, Inc.

5

$14,653,000

Ares Management L.P. (NYSE: ARES)

3

$195,010,000

Hudson Bay Capital Management L.P.

3

$9,495,000

Empery Asset Management LP

3

$4,038,642

IntraCoastal Capital, LLC

3

$2,000,000

China Energy Company Limited

2

$273,100,000

MTP Energy Management LLC (Magnetar)

2

$124,276,514

Goldman Sachs & Co.

2

$119,998,400

Novartis Corporation (NYSE: NVS)

2

$115,006,966

Tortoise Capital Advisors, LLC

2

$78,485,912

UBS O'Connor LLC

2

$39,065,000

Third Point LLC

2

$37,482,500

BVF, Inc.

2

$24,998,090

Kalani Investments Limited

2

$10,700,000

Domain Associates

2

$5,979,891

AWM Investment Management (MGP Advisors, LLC)

2

$2,939,935

Anson Capital, LP

2

$2,000,000

Lincoln Park Capital

2

$1,081,437

Unterberg Capital, LLC

2

                       Not Disclosed

Energy Transfer Equity, L.P.

1

$300,000,000

Citigroup, Inc.

1

$154,594,008

TPG Growth III Sidewall, L.P.

1

$150,000,000

Related Companies L.P., (The)

1

$80,000,000

Blackrock, Inc.

1

$75,037,500

Investor rankings exclude all 144-A Offerings, Equity Lines of Credit, At the Market Transactions, Rights Offerings, Bought Deals, and all PIPE transactions conducted by foreign issuers that trade in the U.S. on the OTC.  Investors classified as Corporate Investors and Insurance Companies have been excluded from this ranking.  Data is for closed and definitive agreement transactions reported as of 04/10/2017.

The Q1 2017 U.S. Private Placement MarketIssuer Counsel League Table by Number of Transactions:

Legal Counsel

  Transaction Count

    Total Amount Advised

Cooley LLP

9

$352,735,807

Latham & Watkins, LLP

6

$555,364,000

Sichenzia Ross Ference Kesner, LLP

6

$24,629,166

Goodwin Procter, LLP

4

$203,875,011

Seward & Kissel LLP

4

$118,200,003

Hogan Lovells

4

$80,160,001

Dechert, LLP

4

$74,911,285

DLA Piper

4

$57,199,999

Vinson & Elkins, LLP

3

$214,999,978

Alston & Bird, LLP

3

$155,130,634

Fenwick & West, LLP

3

$128,825,601

Paul Hastings LLP

3

$128,293,125

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

3

$79,750,003

Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian, LLP

3

$56,154,998

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

3

$50,739,993

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, LLP

3

$44,000,000

Fleming PLLC

3

$27,505,000

Pryor Cashman

3

$16,534,040

Pepper Hamilton, LLP

3

$12,186,450

Mayer Brown LLP

2

$442,055,000

Willkie, Farr & Gallagher

2

$273,100,000

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, LLP

2

$132,400,005

Sidley Austin LLP

2

$75,246,101

Dentons Canada LLP

2

$70,789,998

Fredrikson & Byron, PA

2

$69,717,998

Legal counsel rankings exclude all 144-A Offerings, Equity Lines of Credit, At the Market Transactions, Rights Offerings, Bought Deals, and all PIPE transactions conducted by foreign issuers that trade in the U.S. on the OTC.  Data is for closed and definitive agreement transactions reported as of 04/10/2017.

The Q1 2017 U.S. Private Placement MarketInvestor Counsel League Table by Number of Transactions:

Legal Counsel

 Transaction Count

Total Amount Advised

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP

3

$283,748,000

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

3

$13,000,000

King & Wood, LLP

2

$273,100,000

Kirkland & Ellis

2

$167,500,000

Sullivan & Cromwell

2

$94,700,000

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP

2

$24,998,090

Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP

2

$20,064,000

Andrews Kurth Kenyon, LLP

1

$300,000,000

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson

1

$95,000,000

Ropes & Gray

1

$70,000,000

Foley Hoag, LLP

1

$31,500,002

Peter J. Weisman, PC

1

$8,214,915

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, PC

1

$7,700,000

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP

1

$7,400,000

Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP

1

$5,070,780

Sichenzia Ross Ference Kesner, LLP

1

$5,000,000

Schulte Roth & Zabel, LLP

1

$4,000,001

White & Case, LLP

1

$3,000,000

McDermott, Will & Emery

1

$2,464,735

Legal counsel rankings exclude all 144-A Offerings, Equity Lines of Credit, At the Market Transactions, Rights Offerings, Bought Deals, and all PIPE transactions conducted by foreign issuers that trade in the U.S. on the OTC.  Data is for closed and definitive agreement transactions reported as of 04/10/2017.

The Q1 2017 U.S. Private Placement MarketPlacement Agent Counsel League Table by Number of Transactions:

Legal Counsel

Transaction Count

   Total Amount Advised

Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP

16

$97,371,948

Cooley LLP

8

$446,825,001

Covington & Burling

7

$395,581,264

Goodwin Procter, LLP

6

$314,481,852

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, PC

6

$78,424,299

Latham & Watkins, LLP

4

$157,208,237

Stikeman Elliott LLP

2

$199,100,004

Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw & Pittman, LLP

2

$80,499,998

Dechert, LLP

2

$43,730,000

Proskauer Rose, LLP

2

$34,985,000

Schiff Hardin, LLP

2

$14,470,001

Sichenzia Ross Ference Kesner, LLP

2

$9,500,000

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, LLP

2

$7,517,000

Sullivan & Cromwell

1

$86,293,125

Vinson & Elkins, LLP

1

$69,000,000

Bennett Jones, LLP

1

$69,000,000

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

1

$60,130,625

Porter & Hedges, LLP

1

$60,000,000

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, LLP

1

$57,960,000

Bryan Cave, LLP

1

$50,600,004

White & Case, LLP

1

$43,083,159

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson

1

$33,302,500

Ropes & Gray

1

$25,000,003

NautaDutilh N.V.

1

$18,000,000

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP

1

$17,125,000

Legal counsel rankings exclude all 144-A Offerings, Equity Lines of Credit, At the Market Transactions, Rights Offerings, Bought Deals, and all PIPE transactions conducted by foreign issuers that trade in the U.S. on the OTC.  Data is for closed and definitive agreement transactions reported as of 04/10/2017.

The Q1 2017 U.S. ATM MarketSales Agent by Number of Transactions:

Sales Agent

Transaction Count

   Commitment Amount

Cantor Fitzgerald & Company

16

$1,733,755,000

FBR Capital Markets

15

$937,140,000

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

14

$5,976,201,030

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

12

$5,500,000,000

Jefferies & Company, Inc.

11

$3,784,761,030

RBC Capital Markets, Inc.

11

$3,758,560,000

Raymond James & Associates Inc.

9

$1,806,201,030

Morgan Stanley

8

$3,850,000,000

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.

8

$2,350,000,000

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

7

$3,325,000,000

Cowen and Company, LLC

7

$350,000,000

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

6

$2,050,000,000

Robert W. Baird & Co.

6

$1,350,000,000

Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., Inc.

6

$697,983,000

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

5

$2,275,000,000

Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc.

5

$2,100,000,000

Capital One Securities

5

$1,775,000,000

KeyBanc Capital Markets

5

$1,700,000,000

Stifel Nicolaus Weisel

5

$1,675,000,000

BTIG, LLC

5

$986,000,000

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC

5

$825,000,000

JMP Securities LLC

5

$627,143,000

Barclays Capital, Inc.

4

$1,758,560,000

BNY Capital Markets, Inc.

4

$1,484,761,030

SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.

4

$975,000,000

Sales Agent rankings includes At the Market.  Data is for closed and definitive agreement transactions reported as of 04/10/2017.

The Q1 2017 U.S. ATM MarketSales Agent by Commitment Amount:

Sales Agent

Transaction Count

   Commitment Amount

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

14

$5,976,201,030

Wells Fargo Securities, LLC

12

$5,500,000,000

Morgan Stanley

8

$3,850,000,000

Jefferies & Company, Inc.

11

$3,784,761,030

RBC Capital Markets, Inc.

11

$3,758,560,000

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

7

$3,325,000,000

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.

8

$2,350,000,000

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

5

$2,275,000,000

Mitsubishi UFJ Securities (USA), Inc.

5

$2,100,000,000

Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.

6

$2,050,000,000

Raymond James & Associates Inc.

9

$1,806,201,030

Capital One Securities

5

$1,775,000,000

Barclays Capital, Inc.

4

$1,758,560,000

Cantor Fitzgerald & Company

16

$1,733,755,000

KeyBanc Capital Markets

5

$1,700,000,000

Stifel Nicolaus Weisel

5

$1,675,000,000

TD Securities (USA) Inc.

3

$1,575,000,000

Fifth Third Bank

3

$1,500,000,000

BNY Capital Markets, Inc.

4

$1,484,761,030

Robert W. Baird & Co.

6

$1,350,000,000

UBS Securities LLC

3

$1,250,000,000

Mizuho Securities Co., Limited

2

$1,125,000,000

BMO Capital Markets Corp.

3

$1,100,000,000

Credit Agricole CIB

1

$1,000,000,000

HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.

1

$1,000,000,000

Sales Agent rankings includes At the Market.  Data is for closed and definitive agreement transactions reported as of 04/10/2017.

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