Goldman Sachs leads oil and gas M&A advisory by value in H1 2026

Shree Mishra

Mon, July 27, 2026 astatine 5:47 AM CDT 1 min read

Goldman Sachs and RBC Capital Markets emerged arsenic the starring fiscal advisers for lipid and state assemblage mergers and acquisitions (M&A) during the archetypal fractional of 2026 (H1 2026).

They ranked archetypal successful presumption of worth and volume, respectively, according to a league array from information analytics institution GlobalData.

GlobalData's Financial Deals Database shows that Goldman Sachs advised connected deals worthy $48.3bn.

Evercore was ranked 2nd for woody value, having advised connected transactions totalling $31.6bn.

JPMorgan followed with $25.6bn, portion RBC Capital Markets handled $25.4bn worthy of deals and Barclays was credited with advising connected deals with a combined worth of $12.6bn.

Meanwhile, successful presumption of volume, RBC Capital Markets handled 12 deals to instrumentality the apical place.

Jefferies ranked 2nd successful measurement with 7 deals.

Moelis & Company took 3rd presumption with six deals. Evercore and Houlihan Lokey followed with 5 deals apiece.

The rankings see deals valued astatine $1bn oregon more.

GlobalData pb expert Aurojyoti Bose said: "RBC Capital Markets was the apical advisor by measurement successful H1 2025 and retained that presumption successful H1 2026 arsenic well. It was the lone advisor to deed double-digit woody measurement successful H1 2026.

"Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs, contempt advising connected a overmuch smaller fig of deals, led by worth successful H1 2026 owed to its engagement successful immoderate big-ticket deals. In H1 2026, it advised connected 3 billion-dollar deals that besides included 2 megadeals valued astatine much than $10bn."

GlobalData's league tables are based connected the real-time tracking of thousands of institution websites, advisory steadfast websites and different reliable sources disposable successful the secondary domain. A dedicated squad of analysts monitors each these sources to stitchery in-depth details for each deal, including advisor names.

To guarantee further robustness of the data, the institution besides seeks submissions of deals from starring advisers.