交易促成者

能源业

    麦杰克

    巴克莱资本全球投资银行业务主管

    麦杰克来自德克萨斯，从事能源行业并购已经长达24年，期间主要供职于雷曼兄弟（Lehman）。2011年麦杰克完成了10宗并购交易，此外还协助管理了50宗交易。其中最大的买卖是哪一笔呢？那就是为2011年第二大并购交易——美国天然气管道公司Kinder Morgan以379亿美元收购竞争对手El Paso的交易提供咨询，并为Kinder提供133亿美元贷款用以完成这笔交易。正如麦杰克对《纽约时报》（New York Times）所称，这笔贷款显示如今巴克莱在提供“大型并购交易咨询业务“的同时也有能力提供“高额融资”。

科技业

    弗兰克•夸特罗尼

    投资机构Qatalyst Partners的联合创始人兼首席执行官

    夸特罗尼在网络泡沫时期曾帮助网景（Netscape）等公司上市，后来有几年由于惹上了一场旷日持久的诉讼官司而沉寂了一段时间。如今他新成立的公司Qatalyst已经成为2011年科技业并购业务的热门经纪公司。市场研究公司Dealogic的数据显示，2011年，Qatalyst完成了8宗10亿美元以上的交易，以及2宗100亿美元以上的交易，即谷歌（Google）全盘收购摩托罗拉移动（Motorola Mobility）以及惠普（Hewlett-Packard）收购英国第二大软件公司Autonomy。2011年只有高盛（Goldman Sachs）的大宗科技业并购交易量超过Qatalyst。新兴公司Qatalyst Partners赶上高盛可能指日可待。

ENERGY

    Hugh "Skip" McGee III

    Head of global investment banking, Barclays Capital

    A Texan who has worked in energy M&A for 24 years, mostly at Lehman, McGee closed 10 such transactions in 2011, and he helped oversee the firm's 150 deals so far this year. His biggest coup? Advising Kinder Morgan (KMP) on its $37.9 billion acquisition of El Paso -- the second-largest deal of 2011 -- and providing Kinder with a $13.3 billion loan to help seal the deal. As McGee told the New York Times, the loan showed that Barclays now has the "big-boy checkbook" to go along with its "big-boy M&A business."

TECH

    Frank Quattrone

    Co-founder and CEO, Qatalyst Partners

    After his stint taking companies like Netscape public during the dotcom boom -- and another few years on the sidelines because of a prolonged court battle -- Quattrone's semi-eponymous new firm, Qatalyst, has become the go-to broker for tech M&A. In 2011, according to Dealogic, Qatalyst did eight deals worth more than $1 billion and two at more than $10 billion: Google's (GOOG) buyout of Motorola Mobility and Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ) purchase of Autonomy. Only Goldman Sachs (GS) did a higher volume of big tech deals in 2011. It may not be long until the upstart firm "qatches" Goldman too.