Goldman M&A Head Says Buyers Are Keeping ‘Eyes on the Sunset’

Wall Street is in the middle of a dealmaking cycle that promises plenty more transformational mergers, according to the head of M&A at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., who said companies are now well-versed in navigating volatility.

Stephan Feldgoise said he’s seeing almost double the amount of deals in the $5 billion to $10 billion range, a trend he said mirrored M&A cycles of the early 2000s and 2010s.

“The numbers are pretty staggering,” he said at Tulane University’s Corporate Law Institute in New Orleans on Thursday. “It feels like we’re in a second, third, fourth year of what ...