Bank Prestige List (AI-Assisted)
Top Tier/Top 10: The top and mid BBs and top EBs
(GS, MS, JPM, CVP, EVR, BOFA, CITI)
Top 10-20: Low/Semi BBs and weaker EBs
(DB, BMO, UBS, RBC, LAZ, MOE, GUGG)
Outside Top 20: MMs and foreign balance-sheet banks
(JEF, TD, Mizuho, BNP Paribas, Nomura)
Ranked by average deal size for 2025 (excluding outlier banks with less than 50 deals completed) based on FactSet's league tables. Claude generated the below rankingss.
FINANCIAL ADVISORS RANKED BY AVERAGE DEAL SIZE (50+ TRANSACTIONS)
Rank | Financial Advisor | Avg Deal ($M) | Total Value ($M) | Deals
-----|-------------------------------|---------------|------------------|------
1 | Wells Fargo & Co. | $7,193.7 | $446,007.5 | 62
2 | Centerview Partners | $4,532.7 | $475,935.4 | 105
3 | Citigroup | $3,663.0 | $604,497.0 | 165
4 | Morgan Stanley | $3,407.1 | $981,251.3 | 288
5 | Evercore, Inc. | $3,258.6 | $557,215.8 | 171
6 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | $3,257.9 | $1,176,120.5 | 361
7 | Barclays Plc | $3,085.1 | $416,589.9 | 135
8 | Goldman Sachs & Co. | $3,068.6 | $1,144,581.0 | 373
9 | BofA Securities | $3,063.7 | $640,120.0 | 209
10 | BMO Capital Markets | $1,839.3 | $128,750.4 | 70
11 | Deutsche Bank AG | $1,734.0 | $190,738.0 | 110
12 | UBS Group AG | $1,640.1 | $295,214.2 | 180
13 | Moelis & Co. | $1,638.4 | $204,805.4 | 125
14 | RBC Capital Markets | $1,533.0 | $196,220.3 | 128
15 | Guggenheim Capital LLC | $1,341.0 | $95,221.0 | 71
16 | Lazard | $1,250.8 | $216,388.8 | 173
17 | Banco Santander SA | $1,114.3 | $61,288.7 | 55
18 | Jefferies LLC | $1,089.5 | $235,340.8 | 216
19 | Toronto-Dominion Bank | $1,054.4 | $82,244.7 | 78
20 | Mizuho Financial Group | $1,036.6 | $112,987.8 | 109
21 | Nomura Securities Co. | $1,027.5 | $87,340.7 | 85
22 | BNP Paribas SA | $1,021.8 | $89,914.1 | 88
23 | Natixis SA | $614.1 | $43,597.9 | 71
24 | Rothschild & Co | $405.8 | $148,520.9 | 366
25 | Stifel/KBW | $364.1 | $59,350.4 | 163
26 | Daiwa / DC Advisory | $328.2 | $43,328.6 | 132
27 | KPMG International | $209.7 | $78,623.9 | 375
28 | Houlihan Lokey, Inc. | $165.9 | $54,262.2 | 327
29 | Ernst & Young Global | $153.2 | $96,363.8 | 629
30 | PricewaterhouseCoopers | $138.5 | $72,720.8 | 525
Bump!
WF is paradise
You left 6-8 comments on the original ranking about BMO, then you proceed to make your own list, and then include BMO here as a low/semi BB here. It is absolutely delusional and retarded. BMO did not lead any large-cap deals in the U.S. I've attached the league table here (even the league table is not a good measure of prestige). BMO deal volume is 1/4 of Wells, ~1/3 of UBS, 1/2 of DB and RBC. Not to mention the EBs that you grouped with are usually leading in advisory without the buffs from balance sheet. Please stop with this insecurity non-sense.
Yeah maybe use the right league table next time you try to "own me" bud.
Below shows BMO is top 20 while NOT being a volume merchant that just churns MM/LMM shitco deals and only selectively takes on large and mega-cap deals as indicated by it's BB/top EB tier average deal size in my original post. They're comparable in total TX value to DB/LAZ with almost double the average deal size.
If TX value mattered more than avg deal size then EY would beat GUGG and Natixis beats Qatalyst in your twisted schizo scenario.
thoughts on macquarie
Bump!
I passed on a Laz offer. But in no world should Moe and Laz be outside Top 10
Avg deal size is a meaningless metric. Both GS and JPM have very deliberately made a big push to do more small deals where it makes sense. Avg fee is a better metric, but still not great.
WF GOATED (incoming SA)
Yet another horrible list
Bump!
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