Goldman Sachs’ natural resources team, led by Julian Metherell in London, distinguished itself this week by advising the buyerrs on the two eyecatching deals at the start of this week – worth a combined £1.5bn.

The US investment bank this week helped its cause for the end-of-year M&A league tables by landing sole advisory mandates for General Electric on its £800m acquisition of British oil field services provider Wellstream; and PSN on its £606m acquisition by Wood Group.