[2026 - October] Unbiased Prestige Rankings

S++ : PJT RSSG, EVR RX/M&A, GS TMT, CVP HC, Q

S+ : GS FIG, MS MENLO/M&A, CVP (rest)

S : MOE/RX/HC/LA, JPM HC/M&A, GS (classics)

S- : , MOE (rest), HL RX, Lazard PE&I/HC, GS (classics), JPM (rest), MS (rest)

A+ : PJT M&A, BofA M&A/TMT/FSG, Lazard (rest), Raine, Barc PU&I/TECH/HC/FSG, Citi M&A/IND/FSG, PWP HC/RX, Allen&Co

A : BofA REGL/IND, LionTree, Gordon Dyal, Ducera, PWP (rest), GS (Financing), MS LevFin/ECM, JPM LevFin

A- : BofA (rest), Citi (rest), Barc (rest)

B+ : Guggenheim, UBS GIG/LevFin/IND, Jefferies, Greenhill, Macquarie IEC, RBC PU&I

B : Rothschild, DB FSG/LevFin/REGL/IND, BMO M&M/M&A, RJ CR, DB (rest), William Blair HC, UBS (rest), RBC, Macquarie, Wells Fargo M&A, Piper Sandler CR

B- : Cain Brothers, Wells Fargo (rest), BMO (rest), Harris Williams 

C+ : TD Cowen HC/TECH, Piper Sandler (rest), RJ (rest), Baird, FTP, Solomon Partners

C : KBW FIG, Oppenheimer & Co., TD Cowen (rest), Nomura, BNP Paribas

D : KBW, Lincoln International, HSBC, Cantor Fitzgerald, Mizuho, Stifel, MUFG

F : KeyBanc, BGL

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My bank is ranked below what my ego prefers. That said, this is objectively wrong. 

 
  • PWP (rest) to A-, PJT M&A and MOE (rest) to A. JEFF and whatever this Macquarie/RBC shit is needs to be in B. 
  • Wells kids are annoying but this is their second year at #5, time to put them in B+ or arguably A-. 
  • Lastly, congrats on MS ECM!
 

Addn comments: JPM M&A does not exist as a group anymore. Also isn’t UBS GIG = IND??? 

Plz fix, this looks amateur

 

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