Hi folks, any thoughts / advice on these two teams? contemplating 2nd year analyst offer and would be helpful to weigh them in terms of deal flow, hours, comp etc? Thanks!
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Just curious, is DB SF team hiring to expand team? or replacing laterals
seems like replacing laterals for now
gugg all day
Gugg
Thanks guys, any particular reasons you are choosing Gugg over DB in SF?
Depends - both have their pros and cons. DB SF is a much larger office and will provide you with a far wider breadth of deal experience, but comp will be lower. Guggenheim MP is very much focused on enterprise software, with an emphasis on cybersecurity, so it is a much narrower industry. The MD there is ex-GS and is pretty strong in the space, so I'd imagine advisory deal experience would be pretty strong, and Guggenheim in general also pays more. The downside to Guggenheim MP is that the office is pretty reliant on a single MD. I did my AN-ASO years at a GS/MS/JPM regional office where the office was basically carried by 1/2 MDs, and while the smaller office does have its perks with culture/hierarchy/exposure to seniors, one of my concerns was that the office (and thus my career) was dependent on a single MD, which is why I ultimately left for the NY office.
That was very helpful, thanks so much. Any thoughts on exit opps for each? Specially in the VC realm?
Gugg MP is way too new to judge exit opps so exit opps would much more be focused on analyst strength and the Guggenheim name rather than HH's knowledge of the office and traditional track record. DB SF doesn't have the strongest exit opps, but I know they've placed into MM-UMM growth and buyout in the past. To my knowledge, MF placement would be a pretty big stretch from DB SF, as I'm not aware of many MF placements.
Loooks like the first analyst on that Guggenheim Menlo team went to 6th Street
Is that shop a good exit compared to UMM pe? Thought they did credit
e: Mistaken.
That was NY TMT not MP
DB undoubtedly
Similar thoughts to what an above user said, group is established with seasoned MDs
The gug md at MP is fantastic though
Thank y'all for your comments, very helpful. My latest intel is that they did like 5 to 10 deals this year which in this climate is really good; seems like group is ramping up!
I know they hired another MD from Goldman SF TMT relatively recently and worked on the Knowbe4 and Barracuda acquisition by Vista and Thoma Bravo worth 4.6bn and 4bn respectively. Pretty impressive considering the team size and the senior mgmt seems solid.
Yeah absolutely. They also worked on acronis capital raise with goldmansachs partners as the investor, pretty impressive momentum I must say.
Happy new year everyone! anyone here on this thread that can shed any light on the bonuses in west coast banking in particular both DB and Gugg (assuming the numbers are still not out there)?
Wait -- these offers are both still open to you? Surprised neither bank gave you deadline to accept.
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