Tech, media and telecoms M&A hits 9-year high

LONDON, April 17 (Reuters) - Worldwide dealmaking in the technology, media and telecoms (TMT (Shanghai: 600458.SS - news) ) sectors is at its highest level year-to-date since 2006, buoyed by Nokia (Swiss: NOK1V.SW - news) 's 15.6 billon euro ($16.9 billion) bid for Alcatel (Paris: FR0000130007 - news) -Lucent this week, Thomson Reuters data shows.

So far this year, deals worth $245.8 billion have been struck globally in TMT, accounting for a combined 23 percent of worldwide M&A activity, the data shows.

Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS-PB - news) ranks first for advisory work on TMT deals, having worked on 23 worth $89.1 billion so far this year, followed by HSBC with $61.7 billion worth of deals and JPMorgan (LSE: JPIU.L - news) , sole advisor to Nokia in third place with $47.8 billion.

(For more weekly data click here: http://trmcs-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/3501ec8eae589bfbef9cc1729a7312f0_20150417075357_IB%20Scorecard%20Weekly%20Highlights_041615.pdf

For data on year-to-date investment banking activity click here: http://trmcs-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/3501ec8eae589bfbef9cc1729a7312f0_20150417075358_Weekly%20Scorecard%20Template%20041615.pdf)

(Reporting by Anjuli Davies; Editing by Mark Potter)