Michael Carr, Longtime Top Goldman Investment Banker, Dies at 68

May 14, 2026, 4:19 PM UTC

Michael Carr, an investment banker at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. who advised clients on some of the firm’s biggest deals in his more than two decades at the company, has died. He was 68.

Michael Carr
Photographer: Amanda Gordon/Bloomberg

He died on May 12 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, according to his daughter, Alexandra. He had recently been diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease and suffered a series of complications in recent weeks, she said.

Carr joined Goldman as a partner in 1998, a year before the firm went public. He rose to help lead the bank’s mergers and acquisitions division through the ...

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