M&A Banker of the Year

Kendrick R. Wilson III, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co. Ken Wilson, head of the Financial Institutions Group at Goldman, Sachs, wins M&A’s Banker of the Year award for both the number and significance of financial services mergers and acquisitions that his unit helped execute during 2000. Goldman, Sachs bankers working under the m&a veteran advised on the buy or sell sides of 113 deals in banking, investment banking, insurance, and other consolidating financial sectors across the globe. They included such domestic megadeals as the Citigroup acquisition of Associates First Capital and Firstar’s acquisition of U.S. Bancorp, and two in-bound blockbusters in investment banking – the UBS Warburg purchase of PaineWebber and the Credit Suisse First Boston absorption of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Wilson’s group was active globally in a number of deals that did not involve American firms, such as the British banking merger of Royal Bank of Scotland and National Westminster and the Japanese insurance combination of Mitsui Marine & Fire and Sumitomo Marine & Fire. Wilson joined Goldman, Sachs in 1998 after serving as vice chairman of Lazard Freres and president of Ranieri Wilson & Co.