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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. clients have started to accelerate their plans for mergers and acquisitions to the first half of the year to avoid the US election in November, according to the firm’s head of global acquisition finance, Christina Minnis.
“Many of our clients have tried to move their transactions into the first and second quarter, which is one of the reasons why I think we’ve had such a robust first quarter — and I expect that to continue up until the summer,” Minnis said at a Bloomberg New Voices event Wednesday. “I think we are quite concerned about the fall.”