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Selling Aramco: The Wall Street A-Listers on the Oil Giant's IPO

Saudi energy producer hired about 25 banks to work on deal
Dealmakers wooed kingdom for years to win roles on share sale

An employee looks out over the Natural Gas Liquids facility in Saudi Aramco's Shaybah oilfield.
Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg

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By Matthew Martin, Dinesh Nair, Sonali Basak, and Archana Narayanan

October 16, 2019 at 7:00 PM EDT

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October 17, 2019 at 4:33 AM EDT

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Saudi Aramco has enlisted the help of a former Donald Trump national security adviser and an ex-House of Representatives majority leader to pull off the world’s biggest IPO.

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