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industry. also opinions on gugg/greenhill/roth/HL/JEF would be appreciated, and how they compare to barclays/rbc/ubs

 

UBS has the best reputation for exit opportunities, even if its M&A team is not as strong. Reputation and strength of deal flow are two different things and RBC's reputation has not caught up to that of a global bank's like UBS

 

Would choose UBS as well. The other three banks are the same tier so it comes down to preference

 
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it doesn't matter...all of those are great firms.

If you only care about exit opps, then HL and UBS all the way.

But if you want to have a good time and surround yourself with people you can shoot the shit with, (I know i'm going to get ms for this...) then RBC. I've never met a hardo from RBC and everyone there is super chill. It's like they drank maple syrup or something before hitting the desk.

Just my two cents.

 
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Fair, but would you really want to pigeonhole yourself into only investment banking for the rest of your life with 80-100 hour work weeks? It's all about exit ops, and UBS is better than RBC for that

 

I don’t think ones ability to exit will be much different between RBC and UBS. At that point not worth splitting the hairs, your ability to exit from one of these lower tier platforms will depend on deal experience, education, etc which is all individual specific.

 

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