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While M&A had a down year during the pandemic, bankers still orchestrated a number of megadeals.
Insider partnered with the financial-data platform MergerLinks to identify 2020 s top 20 bankers.
The ranking is based lead investment bankers who arranged the largest M&A deals in North America.
For Wall Street s rainmakers, the start of 2020 was a nightmare.
Mergers and acquisitions temporarily went over a cliff in the springtime as the world was met with a series of lockdowns and strict restrictions to confront the spread of the coronavirus. In the dealmaking drought in the first half of the year, global volumes collapsed to $1.2 trillion, a 41% decline from 2019, with megadeals taking the brunt of it, falling 69%, according to data from Ref
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Another senior Point72 data executive is departing the hedge fund.
Kirk McKeown, who led proprietary research, is leaving to start a business, sources told Insider.
In December, Matthew Granade, who oversaw the fund s data efforts, left amid a firm reorganization.
Another top data executive is out at Point72.
Kirk McKeown, who led proprietary research at the hedge fund, has left the firm, according to people familiar with the matter and an internal memo seen by Insider.
McKeown, who joined the firm eight years ago and created its Canvas Fundamental Research Group, had been deliberating his departure for weeks and is leaving to start a data and research company, according to the memo.