Best EB/Boutiques for Capital Markets groups

You always hear about top EBs and Boutiques on the street for coverage groups, M&A, and restructuring which is technically more of a product group than a coverage group. Haven't been able to find much, but was wondering which EBs or Boutique shops are best in DCM, Structured Finance, and ECM. And how their pay stacks up against their peers in the coverage and m&a groups.

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I don’t know of any EB’s with DCM or Structured Finance teams as almost by nature of their value proposition they don’t lend to clients from their balance sheet. That said, EB’s will advise clients (usually through their M&A teams) on debt raises or bond offerings especially as the private debt market has grown to the extent that corporates and sponsors may be less reliant on bank financing. I know some of the EB’s and boutiques do have ECM teams - I know Evercore does and I know that many boutiques do, especially boutiques focused on Healthcare (e.g. leerink) 

 

*SVB Leerink now has DCM capabilities with the silicon valley bank acquisition

 
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I don't really know much about "rankings" because the idea of independent CM advisory is so nascent. I will say, as someone at an independent platform that is all-in on the idea of CM advisory to complement M&A and Rx, it has been going gangbusters and I really encourage anyone currently in CM to consider jumping platforms. Our team sits next to the corporates and walk through capital raising options, then run bake-offs and advise on creditor, underwriter or book runner selection, forcing competition between underwriters and the large credit funds. It's really interesting, especially in a post-covid era where it isn't just up and to the right all day everyday. CM here is basically in line with M&A in the sense that, we don't need to crank CM deals to feed the beast the way JPMorgan or Citi does, so the work usually focused on more complicated situations than vanilla raises.  As far as comp, it is the same as M&A. We do not, as far as I know, hire into these groups out of undergrad (though generalist analysts will work closely with them) and usually look for prior experience. 

 

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