Goldman Sachs has promoted a long-serving dealmaker to lead its equity capital markets syndicate unit in Europe following the departure of its previous head to hedge fund Citadel.
Laura Vincent, who was most recently leading Goldman's coverage of the Nordic region within its ECM team, has been promoted to head of equity syndicate for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to people familiar with the matter.
Vincent, who started her career at Goldman Sachs in 2008, takes over from Mark Maislish, who is set to depart the Wall Street bank for a senior role at Citadel, Financial News previously reported.
A Goldman Sachs spokesperson confirmed the appointment.
She was featured in FN's annual Rising Stars of Investment Banking list in 2022, a year after being promoted to managing director. Vincent started out within Goldman’s industrials investment banking team in New York in 2008, before switching to ECM two years later.
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She left the bank to complete an MBA at Harvard Business School in 2013, but returned to Goldman two years later, this time in London.
Goldman Sachs finished third in the Emea ECM fee league tables last year with $109.4m, according to data provider Dealogic, slipping from second in 2022. Banks have struggled against a dearth of IPOs over the past two years, with UK volumes slipping to a 20-year low in 2023.
Maislish joined Goldman Sachs in 2020 to lead its syndicate desk after nine years working at Morgan Stanley. One of its top equity underwriting bankers in London, he made the cut for FN's Rising Stars list in 2021.
Other senior London bankers have departed Goldman in recent weeks. The Wall Street bank’s co-head of global banking and markets, Jim Esposito, stepped down in late January after close to three decades at Goldman Sachs. Meanwhile, partner and head of Emea healthcare investment banking Ben Thorpe departed earlier in February to join Guggenheim Securities, FN reported.
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