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Key Highlights:
- Boutique fees down 24% from YTD'18 to 4-year low. Boutiques Loose Fee Share For First Time Since YTD 2014
- Record fees earned by Boutiques in 2018
- Number of Boutique firms up 51% in last decade
- Twenty of the top fifty M&A fee earners in 2018 were boutiques, double the number in 2000
- Almost half of European M&A fees in last 5Y were earned by Boutiques
- Boutiques earn most fees in Financial and Tech sectors but show most dominance in Consumer sector over the last 5 years
- Boutiques win mandates for advisory services on all top 10 deals over last 15 years
