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BAML and CS have a couple groups that significantly outplace anything else at these 4: BAML sponsors, levfin and CS sponsors. Beyond those, all the m&a groups are solid, as are Barclays power/natres.

If you have no group indications, BAML probably has highest expected value.

 

BAML and CS have a couple groups that significantly outplace anything else at these 4: BAML sponsors, levfin and CS sponsors. Beyond those, all the m&a groups are solid, as are Barclays power/natres.

If you have no group indications, BAML probably has highest expected value.

 

I would say it's pretty much a wash across the board if group placements were a question mark with each firm having unique advantages.

BAML (LevFin, Sponsors, M&A) and Citi (M&A, Industrials) have a few groups that place very well but those groups are very competitive to get into, as expected.

Barclays has strong coverage groups across the board that all run their own modelling (no M&A group) and top analysts exit pretty well every year.

CS Sponsors stands heads and shoulders above the rest in terms of exits and may be the single best group in the four banks you listed for pure PE exits, but the other groups lag behind those of other banks.

 

I wouldn't overthink it. Any ib groups in the above 4 banks that give you a modelling experience will give you a chance for a great exit given you are a coveted analyst. Some of the groups highlighted by the others and I above simply give a leg up in PE recruiting.

 

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