Goldman Bankers Roll Up Sleeves and Plead for LBOs to Return

Leveraged finance bankers are ready to get to work. They’re just waiting on clarity from everyone else: private equity firms, corporate borrowers and the Trump administration.

“Sponsors in the room, we’re counting on you guys,” Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s global head of credit finance, Christina Minnis, said at the firm’s 10th annual leveraged finance and credit conference in Dana Point, California, on Thursday.

While mergers and acquisitions have picked up — alongside corporate borrowing — private equity sponsors are still having a tough time offloading their investments. Buyouts are more difficult, too, as global private equity fundraising has ...