7 Goldman Sachs bankers who dominated dealmaking and helped their firm trounce competitors in 2019

• Business Insider and MergerLinks recently published a ranking of the top 20 M&A dealmakers in North America.
• Goldman Sachs, the top M&A bank globally and in North America in 2019, dominated the list, with seven investment bankers in the top 20.
• Bank of America, whose investment bank had a comeback year after a dreary 2018, had the second most, with three people.
• The M&A market has been hot the past two years - volumes surged to $3.57 trillion globally in 2019, according to Bloomberg data, surpassing a hot 2018 that saw $3.2 trillion worth of deals.
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Goldman Sachs' mergers-and-acquisitions group had a monster year in 2019.

The M&A market has been hot the past two years - volumes surged to $3.57 trillion globally in 2019, according to Bloomberg data, surpassing a hot 2018 that saw $3.2 trillion worth of deals.

Goldman came in first among investment banks on the global industry league tables, both for deal volume and fees. They topped the charts for the US, too.

Business Insider recently partnered with MergerLinks, a financial intelligence platform that tracks deals and individual bankers, to present "The Rainmakers," a league-table ranking of the top-20 M&A bankers based on the size of the deals they orchestrated in North America in 2019.

MergerLinks, based in London, has previously tracked and organized league tables for European bankers and lawyers, but this is the first year it has put together a ranking focused on the US and Canada. To be eligible for the ranking, which is based on the enterprise value of deals, an individual must have been a lead adviser on two or more transactions involving a companies primarily based in North America. IPOs and financings are not considered, nor are deals in other regions.

You can read more about the MergerLinks' methodology and criteria here.

Just like the company-wide league tables, Goldman had the strongest showing on the individual ranking, with seven bankers in the top 20. Bank of America, whose investment bank had a comeback year after a dreary 2018, had the second-most, with three people.

As with the broader list, some of the Goldman bankers advised on the same deals and each earned credit.

In an M&A year dominated by Goldman Sachs, here are the seven Goldman bankers that orchestrated the biggest deals of 2019.