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Goldman Sachs & Co.'s FIG team has had a great nine months.
For a five-year period, Goldman Sachs lagged behind peers when it came to advising on big bank M&A. But the investment bank has now landed advisory roles on three of the last six U.S. depository M&A deals with an announced value of at least $1 billion.
The only investment bank to land more advisory roles on those transactions is Sandler O'Neill & Partners LP, which has worked on five of the last six U.S. depository deals with an announced value of at least $1 billion. Goldman Sachs and Sandler O'Neill were both sell-side advisers on the most recent big bank deal, PrivateBancorp Inc.'s $3.8 billion pending sale to Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, a...