Awards for Excellence 2015: Best global M&A house

Goldman dumbfounds its rivals with a stunning comeback from ninth in the league table to once again dominate the advisory market.

Best global M&A house:

Goldman Sachs

 

Also shortlisted:
  Morgan Stanley
  Bank of America Merrill Lynch

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In late February 2014, with the M&A business finally blooming after a long hibernation, large, strategic multi-billion deals that corporate strategy groups and their advisers had quietly talked about for years were suddenly flowering. The biggest then was Comcast’s $45 billion proposed acquisition of Time Warner Cable. 

Goldman Sachs, long-time leader of the M&A rankings in the business for which the investment bank is still best known, wasn’t on the ticket.

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