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1: Yes, Solomon is a MM because they do almost all MM deals. I think they like to market that they're an EB because they hire mostly targets and do a few 1B+ deals in C&R. Other MMs on the list do many 1B+ deals a year too (e.g., WB, Piper, RJ, etc).

2. Wells isn't an MM, they're more of a large in between bank. As of right now, the best exits outside of the REGAL group seem to be to MM PE, and on a per capita basis they tend to place less into MM PE than many of the tier 1s and 2s on the list. People on here keep hyping up their new hires and investments into IB, so perhaps that will change in the next 5 years we'll see. 

3. Not too sure about Lincoln and their exits because you're right that they do mostly LMM deals. I've heard that career progression is great though if you want to be a career banker. I'd imagine exits into PE aren't the best since analysts don't really get any true modeling work. 

Classic delusional Solomon move thinking they are in EB. They are very MM and should be ashamed for misleading new prospects.

This is kind of similar to how other MM firms position it - for instance WB HATES being called a middle market firm - they call themselves a "Premier Boutique" 

Agreed on the conclusion here but want to note that HL RX isn’t comparable to anything else listed here, as the group isn’t doing MM M&A deals. Basically, a prospect shouldn’t comp an offer their versus anything listed here.

is that across all their offices?

Doesn't Piper compete a lot with Stifel and KeyBank

Pays like one