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Best 5 bankers alive: Tobin, Tobin, Tobin, Tobin, and Tobin.

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Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes.
 
"Hooligan low key" Hall of famers once they retire: Paul Taubman, Michael Klein, Ken Moelis

Mind blown on the Michael Klein reference. I worked with him directly and frequently back in the day. He was big time then, but I haven’t kept up and had no idea what he’s been up to. It was a major deal when he left Citi as he was viewed by many senior people as the future CEO of the whole bank.

 

I’d say Wallstreet Mount Rushmore you put: JP Morgan, Sidney Weinberg (man who built Goldman Sachs), Milken, Steve Schwartzman (since he’ll probably donate the money to build it).

Honorable Mentions: Felix Rohatyn (for building Lazard), Quattrone, Dimon, and Martin Lipton (because who doesn’t love a “shareholders rights plan”).

 

You guys need to read some history books.

Marty Lipton and Joseph Flom invented what we now call M&A and we're instrumental in makinh investment banking into what it Is today.

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Guys, I cannot believe this man hasn't been mentioned yet. Please include the future billionaire Steve McLaughlin. This man has built a juggernaut of a company since 2002 that has done several multi-billion deals. I mean how crazy is that? Other MDs literally fawn over how he can make so much money from his deals and they wish they could be as successful as him. I have several friends who have left at FT and they have told me that whenever they say they used to work at FT, they will ALWAYS hear from senior members: "OH, Steve's firm?!" Yeah, it's something to respect. I mean the guy was on Bloomberg by himself. Which MD has done that talking about his own firm? Tell me! This is an impartial post btw

 
"jerry_22354" Guys, I cannot believe this man hasn't been mentioned yet. Please include the future billionaire Steve McLaughlin. This man has built a juggernaut of a company since 2002 that has done several multi-billion deals. I mean how crazy is that? Other MDs literally fawn over how he can make so much money from his deals and they wish they could be as successful as him. I have several friends who have left at FT and they have told me that whenever they say they used to work at FT, they will ALWAYS hear from senior members: "OH, Steve's firm?!" Yeah, it's something to respect. I mean the guy was on Bloomberg by himself. Which MD has done that talking about his own firm? Tell me! This is an impartial post btw

This post gave me cancer it was so bootlicking

 

Ridiculous thread ... surprised no real consensus here. Kind of shows that most people on this board do not know banking very well, which discredits most of the garbage on the site.

 

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