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I'd take Moelis, but that's me

1.Credit Suisse 2.Nomura 3.Evercore

Evercore has not given out offers for interns yet. Same for another firm on this list....

Hmmm I thoughtRothschild was king in UK

For those yanks in this forum; there are two Rothschilds. The French and the English one. If it's the English one then I'd say go for it -- if the French one then go fuck it. Moelis though.

I would probably go for either CS or Rothschild here in the UK, if you want to go back to the US than Evercore might be good as well

I work in PE at the moment, but I just did 2 years as analyst in London at a lower tier BB, and in my opinion:

1) Rothschild: They seem to be on EVERY deal apart from the £10bn+ deals (and they get a few of those too!). They have a seat at every table, and it would be impossible doing a few years there without getting fantastic M&A/Restructuring experience. That said, the London office is very British, the Paris office very French, etc, and you would need to fit the cultural mold in order to get a fair shake. As an American, although I'm certain nobody would ever say anything directly to you, you will feel that 2) Moelis: Not much known about these guys, but a less intense version of the above and run by some very good MDs, and pull from impeccable reputations in the US and Asia 3) Houlihan: An expanding team that seems to be on a lot of mid-market sponsor exits and general mid-market M&A assignments. Have taken a lot of MDs from other banks, pay very well, but known to work analysts extremely hard 4) Evercore: Obviously a fantastic bank, but there are still traces of Lexicon Partners (a London boutique they acquired a few years ago), which certainly doesn't stack up in quality to Evercore in the US 5) CS/Nomura: With the options above, these shouldn't even be on the radar, unless you have an angle at a particularly strong group at each of these, and I don't know which groups these would be

Your angle for moving back to the US really complicates things. That makes Moelis and Evercore more attractive than Rothschild for that reason and that reason only. But I can't stress how much more work Rothschild is involved with in London, and how they, probably even more so than Lazard, are considered the pre-eminent pure European M&A advisory firm.

Congrats on all of your successful interviews and offers

I don't know why this is a question of rank.. if you think Evercore is your best option (and I would happen to agree), then you should accept the shit out of that offer. It also has the added benefit of being a relatively small firm, which means your ability to transfer internally to the states may be better than at the other ones.

On Rothschild, the English and French branches merged a few years back. As this is in the UK, the London IB office is mostly the legacy of the "English" branch. I'll second what czhero said, the volume of deals at Rothschild is tremendous.

Nomura should be dead last on your list. They're a couple quarters short of packing it up and going back to Japan and they're conversion rate las Summer in London for IB was somewhere between 0 and 5%.

there are no offers given yet at two of those firms. period

rank all you want

Rothschild in the UK. But seeing as you want to eventually move back to the US, a BB like CS has a more robust internal transfer program given that it is a big bank with positions opening up in groups across US markets.

Rothschild....hands down. I personally think experience is the one thing prospective monkeys should care about the most. If you're good at what you do, you'll be able to move around. You're going to learn a shit ton at Rothschild in UK. Gluck!