Advisers to Europe’s private equity community gathered at Banqueting House in London last week for Private Equity News’s fourth annual Awards for Excellence in Advisory Services, Europe 2009, where Goldman Sachs won the coveted financial sponsors coverage team award for the second year running.

Edmund Truell, founder of Pension Corporation, presented the trophies selected by a panel of the industry's leading private equity firms and advisers and provided the keynote speech.