Goldman Sachs cuts back on new partners In London, Anthony Gutman, who heads up the UK investment bank along with Mark Sorrell, will be elevated to partner. While many of his peers across Europe have already been told they did not make the cut. Globally, the bank is likely to promote a total of just 65 new partners from the thousands of hopeful managing directors in its ranks. In the last round of partnership promotions two years ago, 110 people were named creating a pool of 475 partners. New partners will formally be told by over the phone by Mr Blankfein or Gary Cohn, the bank's chief operating officer over the next few days. Mr Gutman, who led the sale of BP-TNK to Rosneft, is one of the City's most successful bankers, advising on Formula One, the acquisition of Pret a Manger and last years de-merger of Punch pubs.