Best M&A Groups in Chicago
Looking for the best groups in Chi across all the BBs, MMs, EBs and everything else. Would be great to know the industry, group size, culture, exit ops and any other details.
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If you want a lot of reps, good culture and good exits to MM/UMM, look into M&A at Blair and Guggenheim.
Don’t know the whole situation but WB and Baird will be very strong. Think Moelis is good too. For BBs opinions on them seem to vary around here but I think CS was always pretty good and not one of those pitch and ditch shops
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Evercore and Moelis
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Evercore is only paper and packaging lmao, only takes 1-2 analysts per year if I remember correctly
Moelis in the same boat, very small office
Gugg Chi is the best shop in town.. or at least will be in the next 2 years
Gugg Chi definitely has very strong momentum, and has grown exceptionally fast.
Thoughts on HL?
Solid deal flow in CHI and great guys from who I spoke there. Mainly focus on industrials and consumer retail
Very good IND group, probably the #1 HC group in the PPM space and definitely the #1 consumer group for Food and Bev. It's a solid office.
Any details on Fifth Third? Heard they are trying to grow an M&A team.
Strong industrials group. Not sure about Chicago presence. Really killer Metals VP.
Fwiw, Moelis Chicago is pitch city. They bait you with the brand and you end up completing 0 deals.
Can confirm. Plenty of juniors lateral from there because there is almost nothing executed out of that office.
Really? Heard it was one of the stronger CHI groups. Quick linkedin search seems like a good amount of analysts stay on for the A2A promote. Why would they stay on if there was zero deal flow?
Really? Heard it was one of the stronger CHI groups and PE exits last couple years seem pretty good
Thoughts on Piper chi?
Pretty bad office tbh. Most of Piper's deal flow is out of NYC and Minneapolis I believe
Had an interview with the MD there - he told me "If I don't see you at your desk, I assume you're not working." YIKES
Thoughts on PWP Chicago?
Pretty small office focused on industrials (automotive, metals & mining, chemicals, diversified) with a C&R partner as well. Know some juniors there, and the culture there is pretty good and everyone there is really friendly. Deal flow is strong, with the C&R partner as well as the metals & mining + diversified partner being especially strong. The office also handles the execution as well, so the junior experience there is pretty great.
Do you have input on how feasible it is to get an A2A promotion at PWP Chicago? I know sometimes smaller satellite offices push out analysts after 2 years. Not sure if it's kind of the same here as I don't think I've seen any A2A promotions.
William Blair, Guggenheim, Rothschild, Ziegler, am I missing any?
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