As of Wednesday, Macquarie Capital and Goldman Sachs had the No.1 and No.2 mergers and acquisitions team in Australia after advising the data centre giant on the year’s biggest M&A deal, netting its founder Robin Khuda a $1 billion-plus payday. In fact, every bank in the top four – RBC Capital Markets and Deutsche Bank – had some role in the deal advising AirTrunk or the winning bidder Blackstone, pushing last quarter’s table-topper UBS down the ranks. |