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133-140 FLEET STREET LONDON EC4
TENANT’S COVENANT
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading, global investment banking, securities
and investment management firm providing a wide range of financial services to a
substantial and diversified client base including corporations, financial institutions,
governments and high-net-worth individuals.
The Goldman Sachs Group owns Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing, one of the
largest market makers on the NYSE and a leading market maker for fixed income
products, currencies, and commodities. Through affiliates GS Capital Partners, GS
Mezzanine Partners, and others, Goldman Sachs is also one of the largest private
equity investors in the world.
The company’s primary activities are divided into three segments:
Investment Banking
Trading and Principal Investments.
Asset Management and Securities Services.
In the first half of 2010 Goldman Sachs reclaimed the top spot for mergers and
acquisitions and worked on five of the year’s 10 largest deals, nearly $190 billion
of transactions retaking the M&A crown from Morgan Stanley, a title Goldman’s
had held since 1996.
Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York with principal operations
in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong and other major financial centres around
the world. Goldman Sachs Group currently employs 36,200 staff with 5,500 based
in the UK.
The Goldman Sachs Group is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and trades
under the ticker symbol “GS”. The current market capitalisation of The Goldman
Sachs Group is $86.9bn (January 2011) and has reported the following financial
accounts:
2009 2009 2008 2007
% change
on 2008
($m) ($m) ($m)
Net Revenue +112% 45,173 22,222 45,987
Pre-tax earnings +749% 19,829 2,336 17,604
Shareholders Equity +9.9% 70,714 64,369 42,800
Assets Under
Management
+11.8% 871,000 779,000 868,000