He will remain with the firm as an advisory director and will serve on several committees.
"There will be no replacement at this time for global head (of equity capital markets)," the company said in an email on Friday.The bank said regional heads would be responsible for the coverage.Pierce joined the firm as a corporate finance analyst in 1984 after graduating from Stanford and was part of the team that took the firm public in 1999.Pierce became a managing director in 1997 and a partner in 2000, the memo said.Goldman Sachs posted a 2 percent drop in trading revenue for the first quarter ended March 31, a sharp contrast to results from JPMorgan Chase & Co