Good evening,

It’s been a big year of deals and floats, and there’s no better time to take a look at who is sitting on top of the scoreboard than in our last section of the year.

Even with one week of deals left, Goldman Sachs looks set to finish first on the M&A and ECM league tables. Its spot on top comes as no surprise, given the investment bank’s plum postings on Sydney Airport and Oil Search’s takeovers.

Macquarie Capital is set to come second, while Morgan Stanley will finish third in the M&A ranks. In ECM, UBS gets the silver and Bank of America the bronze.

Our biggest deal of the day is a record-breaker in the venture capital space and investment bankers will want to know this company’s name next year.

But that’s all we can say for now. If you’re a night owl, check the website at 2am to find out more.

Elsewhere, three PE firms have signed a deal to acquire New Zealand’s biggest IVF provider Fertility Associates and Firetrail Investments has decided to push ahead with a global equities fund.

Happy holidays,

Anthony Macdonald, Yolanda Redrup and Kanika Sood

Street Talk editors