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The Public Mandate Register: Investment Banks in European Defence M&A
Which investment banks are publicly attributed as financial advisers in European defence and dual-use M&A?
The Public Mandate Register: Investment Banks in European Defence M&A: European defence consolidation. Defence-finance analysis; 15-page sourced DFM PDF report.
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Original DFM publication · DFM Analysis report · 2026-06-18
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.
This analysis 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?
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- 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.
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This report treats that infrastructure as an evidentiary problem.
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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.
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