Goldman Sachs has ended its restriction on underwriting companies with all-White, all-male boards in the United States and Western Europe, becoming the latest corporate behemoth to evaluate its equity and inclusion practices at a time when President Donald Trump is stepping up attacks on DEI policies.

Goldman Sachs has ended its policy requiring IPO clients to have diverse boards, citing a legal ruling that ended a similar initiative at the Nasdaq.

Goldman Sachs is ending its policy that mandated companies have a diverse board for the bank to take them public. The rule, a version of which was implemented in 2020, had said the bank would only underwrite the initial public offerings for companies in the U.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is killing a significant pledge it made to refuse initial public offering business with companies that had all White, male boards.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has changed its stance on underwriting initial public offerings (IPOs) for companies with all-white male boards. In 2020, CEO David Solomon announced that the leading investment bank would only take a company public in the United States or Western Europe if the organization had at least two diverse board members,