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Watch large-cap advisory firms for an M&A upturn signaled by Goldman's record backlog and fee growth.

Watch these financial services beneficiaries of the GAI buildout; no author position disclosed, treat as research basket.

Watch as beneficiaries of AI infrastructure financing. The author maps direct and fee-pool exposure across alternative managers, banks, boutiques, and ratings firms. No ownership stated.

M and A activity should increase because the world is speeding up. CEOs, boards of directors need to adapt... Scale matters increasingly. You need to onshore increasingly. Independent advisory firms will benefit from a massive secular tailwind as corporations are forced to restructure, vertically integrate, and onshore supply chains to survive. Furthermore, boutique firms using AI to enhance senior banker productivity will expand margins without needing to bloat their junior headcounts. LONG independent investment banks positioned to capture the inevitable return to high-volume, complex corporate dealmaking. Short-term geopolitical shocks and market volatility could delay the M&A pipeline, pushing revenue realization further into the future.