
TWO YEARS AGO, at the Euromoney’s Awards for Excellence dinner, a senior investment banker at one of the leading global firms reflected, over his coffee, on the great talking point for the industry in 2006: the extent to which Goldman Sachs appeared to have reinvented itself as a mix between a giant hedge fund and a leading private equity investor.
LBO firms had emerged as the key drivers of M&A volume, launching ever larger and more audacious bids for public companies.
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