Best M&A shops for London?
Which banks have the best reputation for their M&A group (separate from coverage) in London? Curious to see how it compares to the US.
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Basically the same as US with the EBs sans Lazard knocked down a bit. Also in London a lot of banks have UK specific M&A teams and a broad EMEA product execution pool of juniors so not as straightforward.
"EBs sans lazard knocked down" it ain't 2015 anymore lil bro
Compared to their US offices. Which other EB's London office is better than their US offices?
Is this not just done on deal fees? Considering US is a much larger economy would it not be fairly tough for any established bank’s/M&A shop’s counterpart to be doing ‘better’ in the uk?
I think better is a strange word, but I suppose if deal fees & flow are the proxy for success then fair enough.
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