Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher logged PR duties for 101 deals in 2014 to top The Deal's annual league tables.
Sard Verbinnen & Co. followed with 84, ahead of Brunswick Group (38), Abernathy MacGregor Group (35) and Kekst and Company (34).
The Deal, which tracks major deals of more than $100M via Dealogic, reported that the US M&A market had its best year of the millennium in 2014 up 38% to $1.29T.
Healthcare led the charge with transactions like Pershing Square Capital's $66B sale of Actavis and Medtronic's $42.9B merger with Covidien, the latter one of the more prominent "inversion" deals of 2014. Oil and gas and tech also contributed to the robust market for transactions.
Among proxy firms, Georgeson and MacKenzie Partners worked 54 deals apiece, followed by Innisfree M&A (52), DF King & Co. (36), Okapi Partners (18) and Morrow & Co. (11), according to The Deal.
The Deal's report is at http://odwpr.us/1AFlYxi.
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