Awards for Excellence 2011: Best Global M&A house

The firm’s franchise thrives as long-standing clients get busy in M&A while its capacity for innovation wins new ones.



Awards for Excellence 2011

Best Global M&A house: Morgan Stanley

Also nominated: Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan

Euromoney catches up with Rob Kindler, vice-chairman and global head of M&A at Morgan Stanley, shortly after his return to New York from a celebration dinner for Sanofi-Aventis’s $20.9 billion acquisition of Genzyme, the deal of the year in the healthcare sector. It was noteworthy in several aspects, not least that it began as a hostile, unsolicited offer. Such deals are still quite rare as the recovery in the M&A market begins to gather momentum and acquirers are cautious about being drawn into bidding contests.

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