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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