Bankers, lawyers and other advisers are set to take home a combined ￡281m for their work on the London Stock Exchange’s $27bn takeover of financial data provider Refinitiv, in a huge payday for some of London’s top dealmakers.
The figure ranks as one of the biggest for pure advisory work on a UK deal, before factoring in the costs of financing the transaction.
Banks typically take home the bulk of their fees in respect of a deal’s financing. Advisory fees on the ￡4bn takeover of defence contractor Cobham, for example, amounted to just ￡83m of a total fee pool of ￡200m, when financing costs were added.
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