The Public Mandate Register: Investment Banks in European Defence M&A
Who appears in the official paper trail of European defence consolidation
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About this report
European defence consolidation is visible in assets, platforms and strategic-industrial policy, but the advisory infrastructure behind those transactions is harder to measure. This report treats that infrastructure as an evidentiary problem.
It identifies which investment banks are publicly attributed as financial advisers in European defence and strategic dual-use M&A, using only primary or official transaction sources. The governing rule is deliberately strict: no public attribution, no league-table credit. The report is structured around the construction and interpretation of a public mandate register.
Key questions this report answers
- Which investment banks are publicly attributed as financial advisers in European defence and dual-use M&A?
- How is the public mandate register constructed under the strict 'no public attribution, no league-table credit' rule?
- Which banks recur in the public record, and how do advisory mandates relate to the financing layer?
- What jurisdictional, segment and team patterns emerge from the documented deal universe?
Inside this report
- Evidentiary standard and register design
- The documented deal universe
- Which banks recur in the public record
- Advisory mandates and the financing layer
- Jurisdictional, segment and team patterns
- Final interpretation
- Bibliography
Who it's for
Strategy, corporate-development and investment teams that need an ecosystem-level view — budgets, industrial capacity and technology landscapes — before committing capital or capacity.
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DFM reports are built from primary and official sources — TED procurement notices, CORDIS and the EU Funding & Tenders Portal, EIB operations, the NATO Innovation Fund portfolio, SIPRI data, official budget documents and company disclosures — read together with the underlying legal texts. Sources are cited in the document; it reflects them as of its publication date (18 June 2026). You receive a 15-page PDF, watermarked to you on every page, delivered on the confirmation page and by e-mail immediately after checkout (personal link valid 72 hours, up to 5 downloads). Guest checkout, single-user licence — Terms of Sale.
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