What are the best boutique investment banks in the U.S. that consistently punch above their weight? (Exclude firms like Allen & Co. and Dyal as they've been discussed a fair bit here and are extremely exclusive)
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Allen & Company (Global M&A Advisory – Media and Entertainment focused)
Cowen (Global M&A Advisory – Boutique)
Perella Weinberg Partners (Global M&A Advisory – Boutique)
Lazard (Global M&A Advisory)
Rothschild (Global M&A Advisory – Boutique)
Evercore Partners (Global M&A Advisory - Boutique)
Greenhill & Co. (Global M&A Advisory - Boutique)
Blackstone (Global M&A Advisory)
Houlihan Lokey (Global Investment Bank - Boutique)
Jefferies & Co. (Global Investment Bank)
Centerview Partners (Global M&A Advisory)
Oppenheimer & Co. (Global lnvestment Bank – Boutique)
Sandler O’Neill Partners (Global Investment Bank – Boutique - FIG focused)
Moelis & Company (Global Investment Bank – Boutique)
Miller Buckfire & Co. (Restructuring focused)
Morgan Keegan & Co.
WR Hambrecht & Co.
Montgomery & Co. (Media & Internet and Technology focused)
Stephens, Inc.
Stifel Financial
Capstone Partners
CSG Partners
Foros
Needham & Co.
Berkery, Noyes & Co.
Gleacher & Company
Guggenheim Partners
Imperial Capital
Keefe, Bruyette, & Woods
Ladenburg Thalmann
Cain Brothers (Healthcare focused)
Fennebresque & Co
Ziegler
Sonenshine Partners
Lancaster Pollard (Health care focused)
BG Capital
Allegiance Capital Corporation
Sucsy, Fischer & Company
Marathon Capital (Global Energy and Infrastructure focused)
Arma Partners
Financo (Consumer and Retail focused)
Marlin & Associates (Technology, Information, and Healthcare focused)
C.W. Downer
McColl Partners
Panmure Gordon
PCE Investment Bankers, Inc.
Roth Capital Partners
Sagent Advisors
Cantor Fitzgerald
Corporate Finance Associates
Europa Partners
Lincoln International
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New York, NYC:
- Akin Bay Company
- AGM Partners LLC
- Barman Capital LLC
- Brocair Partners LLC
- Chardan Capital Markets, LLC
- Charles Morgan Securities, Inc.
- Dynamica, Inc.
- DZ Financial Markets LLC
- Fieldstone Private Capital Group, Inc.
- FinanceNYC, LLC
- GLC Advisors & Co., LLC
- Hyde Park Advisors, LLC
- Junewicz & Co. Inc.
- Lighthouse Financial Group
- Lightstone Securities, LLC
- Merchant & Schumacher Associates, LLC
- Mercury Capital Advisors, LLC
- Torreya Partners LLC
- Touchstone Group, LLC
- Walsh Manning Securities Inc.
- Winchester Realty, LLC
- Wynston Hill Capital LLC
- XT Capital Partners, LLC
San Francisco:
- Jefferies
- San Trust Robinson Humphrey
- Headwaters MB
- Viant Capital
- Pharus Advisors
- Stifel Nicolaus Weisel
Chicago:
- AG Becker & Co.
- Arnstein & Company, LLC
- Blackmore Partners Ltd.
- Blackwater Capital Group, Inc.
- Chicago Investment Group, L.L.C.
- China-America Capital Company, LLC
- Dresner Partners
- DSI Global M&A
- Fort Dearborn Advisors, LLC
- Gardner Rich & Co.
- GTR Partners
- Hamptons International
- Healthstrat Capital Advisors, LLC
- Houlihan Capital, LLC
- Iliad Avenues, LLC
- Performance Trust Capital Partners, LLC
- Plaisance Advisors LLC
- Resource Financial Corporation
- River Branch Capital LLC
- Stout Risius Ross, Inc.
- Sustainable Capital, LLC
- The Alliance for Corporate Wealth LLC
- The Biotech Capital Group
Boston:
- 3LP Advisors, LLC
- Adventum Group, Inc.
- Aeris Partners
- America’s Growth Capital LLC
- CFBDS Inc.
- Chestnut Securities, Inc.
- Commonwealth Capital Advisors, LLC
- Consensus Advisors LLC
- Consilium Partners LLC
- Copley Browne, Inc.
- Corby Capital Markets, Inc.
- Covington Associates LLC
- EnCapital
- Envoy Advisors
- G2 Capital Advisors LLC
- Game Plan LLC
- Gordon Associates, Inc.
- Gryphon Management Company, Inc.
- Northstar Global Partners, LLC
- O’Conor, Wright Wyman, Inc.
- Prevail Capital, LLC
- Progress Partners, LLC
- Provident Corporate Finance, LLC
- Thornton Group LLC
- Trudeau & Trudeau Associates, Inc.
- Versailles Group, Ltd.
Houston:
- Corporate Finance Associates
- Howard Weil
- Mike Adams Enterprices
- Mills & Stowell
- Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Company, LLC
Washington:
- Jefferies Quarterdeck
- Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Company
- FBR Capita Markets
- McLean Group
- Newman & Associates
- NorthMarq
- The PFM Group
- PRC Grpup
- Monticello Capital
London:
- Ambrian Capital
- Arma Partners
- The Blackstone Group
- Boenning & Scattergood
- Brewin Dolphin
- Brown Brothers Hariman
- Climate Change Capital
- DC Advisory Partners
- Hawkpoint
- Evercore Partners
- Evolution Securities
- Execution Nobel
- Glaecher Shacklock
- GCA Saavian
- Harris Williams & Company
- Houlihan Lokey
- Liberium Capital
- Moelis
- Panmure Gordon
- Perella Weinberg Partners
- Piper Jaffray
- Seymour Pierce
- Thomas Weisel Partners
- William Blair & Company
- McQueen
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