Clients: do you hire bankers based on brand or individual?

If a rockstar banker at your favorite bank A moves to bank B, who do you go to next time?

Banks are poaching left and right but wondering how much the brand of the bank influences decisions vs specific bankers.

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Generally banker specific for us. Brand could impact if it's a tight race between two bankers, but our approach is wanting to hire the guy who knows our portco's industry cold, has the relationships with the strategics/buyers, and has supported the company through the hold with intros, etc. Whether that guys at GS or HW doesn't really matter where we're at in the market 

 

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