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I'll just say that 4 associates in the LA office left in the past couple of months. That's 1/3 of the associates in the office. 

 

Anyone have info on how Moelis SF stacks up to NYC and LA in terms of wlb? Have heard it’s better but not sure

 

Current hours are 9am to 2/3am and around 5 to 20 hour weekend work but I assume this is similar to other banks that have a very strong deal flow.

Not much pitching; usually all live deals. You get more responsibility early as well, so you interact with clients directly, which also adds some hours more.

Overall people are nice but occasional all-nighters really sucks. 

 

We did a bake off against them and lost, I heard that Navid pitched a TRIPLE parallel process of SPAC process, Equity Raise and potential division sale. 

That was for a ~2bn company that, while not close to bankruptcy, had definitely fallen from grace - not exactly trying to displace Lazard at Google here...so yea, you do the math... 

 

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