Financial News last night hosted its 13th annual awards for excellence in European investment banking. The awards were presented at a dinner held at The Magazine restaurant at London's Serpentine Sackler Gallery.

This was another category in which a clear winner emerged, and another win for the bank that took this award home last year. Goldman Sachs retained its crown as Europe’s top M&A adviser by volume of announced deals in 2016. Among a series of complex mandates, it advised SAB Miller on the re-cut terms of its acquisition by AB Inbev in the wake of the Brexit vote. It also advised Qualcomm on its $47 billion bid for NXP, the fourth-biggest technology M&A deal on record.