Best M&A House: a historical view
Global Best M&A House
Its pivotal role in the most important transactions of a hectic year in M&A makes Goldman Sachs the outstanding player in the most competitive market of all.
What are perceived outside the firm as conflicts of interest have not deterred clients from lining up to use Goldman Sachs’s M&A expertise. 2005 Global Best M&A house
Goldman continues to win more business than its rivals in a highly competitive market.
The global rise in M&A volumes in the past 12 months can be largely attributed to the re-emergence of a few multi-billion dollar, complex, industry-defining transactions.
It was a pretty thin year again in M&A, but even in a poor year Goldman Sachs continues to set the standards.
2002 The world's best M&A house
Not even Goldman Sachs, which wins the best M&A house award, claims to have had a good time of it this year.
2001 The world's best M&A house
When SunTrust Banks put in a hostile bid for Wachovia in mid-May in an attempt to steal it away from friendly bidder First Union, Wachovia felt it needed to bolster its advisory team.