2010 Awards for excellence: Best Global M&A house

While its reputation was being dragged through the mud, the firm kept doing what it does best – advising on the biggest takeover deals around the globe.


Awards for Excellence 2010
Best Global M&A house: Goldman Sachs
Also nominated: Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank

As equity markets recovered from their lows in March 2009, the investment-grade credit markets reopened, and signs emerged of a fragile economic recovery, slowly mergers and acquisitions deals revived.

Warren Buffett placed his all-in bet on US economic recovery with the $35.9 billion purchase of railroad company Burlington Northern Santa Fe. This was a relatively straightforward transaction but a large one of great symbolic significance that confirmed reviving animal spirits in the US.

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