Here's a note of which firms topped the Thomson Reuters M&A league tables around the world in the first half of 2008.

Announced deals 01/01/2008 - 30/06/2008

Any Americas Involvement - Goldman Sachs - $471.9bn deal value, 133 deals

Any US Involvement - Goldman Sachs - $440.5bn, 128

Any Latin American Involvement - Credit Suisse - $33.4bn, 24

Any Brazilian Involvement - Credit Suisse - $32.1bn, 21

Any Canadian Involvement - Deutsche Bank - $8.2bn, 4

Any European Involvement - Goldman Sachs - $312.1bn, 78

Any Benelux Involvement - Merrill Lynch - $73.0bn, 12

Any UK Involvement - Goldman Sachs - $47.2bn, 27

Any German Involvement - Deutsche Bank - $38.6bn, 42

Any Italian Involvement - Mediobanca - $38.6bn, 39

Any Spanish Involvement - UBS - $33.2bn, 8

Any French Involvement - Calyon - $26.0bn, 18

Any Nordic Involvement - Deutsche Bank - $18.0bn, 7

Any Asia ex-Japan Involvement - Lehman Brothers - $37.5bn, 17

Any Australian Involvement - Morgan Stanley - $29.4bn, 8

Any New Zealand Involvement - Goldman Sachs - $669.1m, 2

Any Indian Involvement - Nomura - $5.0bn, 2

Any Japanese Involvement - Nomura - $20.8bn, 60

Source - Thomson Reuters

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