Board Connections Give Goldman Sachs the Advantage in New Buyout Strategy

Goldman Sachs is setting big goals for small deals as it has raised $20 billion for its latest buyout fund (see article from Reuters). In order to examine how common connections may give Goldman Sachs the upper hand in its business dealings, we quickly created an IntellectSpace Knowledge Map of the board connections of the private equity giant.

As illustrated in this Knowledge Map, most of Goldman’s Board Members are Directors at other major companies. For example, James A Johnson (Goldman Sachs Director since 1999) is a Board Member at no less than five other companies. These strong corporate ties, along with the numerous others shared by the rest of the Goldman Sachs Directors, should go far in benefiting the company’s plans for future deals.

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