NEW YORK: Brunswick Group advised on M&A deals worth $32.5 billion in total in the first quarter of 2012, ranking it first in the US in the Mergermarket League Tables of PR Advisers.

Brunswick worked on 21 US deals in Q1. The agency was followed by Sard Verbinnen & Co., which worked on 20 deals worth nearly $30 billion, and Kekst and Company, which advised on 28 deals worth $18.5 billion. Joelle Frank Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher and Abernathy MacGregor group ...