Barclays Capital M&A
What's the general consensus on Barclays Capital's IBD M&A desk? What about in London, would they be any stronger over there?
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Evaluating BarCap IBD (M&A) (Originally Posted: 02/06/2010)
Barclays Capital are investing heavily in expanding their IBD franchise. To the best of my knowledge, their goal is for their M&A-department to be up there with GS/MS/JPM. Where do people see BarCap's IBD in the future? Is their European IBD a good place to initiate a career in M&A? Pros/cons?
I don't think BarCap has a standalone M&A group.
It's obviously a bad choice, since they don't have an M&A group. GS doesn't either. GS has industry groups that do their own M&A and BarCap has M&A people sprinkled in all their industry groups.
With that said, obviously BarCap is pretty strong in IBD overall in the US, but it's not as strong in Europe. I'd say over there the difference to MS/GS/JPM is a little bigger and I don't see that difference shrinking in the next couple of years.
BarCap definitely has a generalist M&A section that works with their industry groups.
There's definitely not a separate M&A group in the US, but things might be organized differently in the UK. As Blade1988 said, each industry group in the US has dedicated M&A analysts.
^^^ This only because that's how it was in place when the bought the farm from Lehman.
Am also interested on opinions, as I saw that Barcap are advising BHP in the Potash bid. Apologies for bumping a bit of an old topic.
They advised because they were one of the lending banks - they have good potential, but it would be very very difficult to hire barcap as a standalone advisor on a deal. they're a good bank to go tag-teaming with.
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