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Former surgeon Raj Shah draws on a lifetime’s experience in the medical sector in his role as co-head of Emea healthcare alongside Ben Thorpe. Since joining the firm from Bristol Myers Squibb, Shah has worked on GlaxoSmithKline’s sale of £1bn worth of OTC assets, the €9.6bn sale of Swiss firm Nycomed to Japan’s Takeda, and the sale of Germany’s generic medicines produces Ratiopharm to Israel’s Teva. Thorpe has worked on private equity firm Terra Firma’s acquisition of Four Seasons Healthcare and Novartis on its acquisitions of Genoptix and Alcon. At a global level, Goldman is currently ranks first in Dealogic’s healthcare M&A rankings for the year to date, having advised on $17.9bn worth of deals, and is currently working on the $2.2bn acquisition of Danish firm Dako by the US’s Agilent Technologies.

The pharmaceutical sector has offered up a spate of deals in recent months. We profile some of the top bankers working in pharmaceuticals, healthcare and biosciences in Europe and beyond

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