The co-head of European mergers and acquisitions at JPMorgan has topped a 2019 ranking of dealmakers in the region — a year when the total value of transactions fell but a handful of mega-deals kept bankers busy.

Dwayne Lysaght, who was promoted to lead JPMorgan’s M&A division for Europe, the Middle East and Africa alongside Dirk Albersmeier in January last year, leads a list of the top 50 European M&A bankers provided exclusively to Financial News by data provider MergerLinks (see full list below).