Info About WF Offices/Groups

Incoming WF SA, looking for some input from fellow monkeys on what they know about the different WF Locations (SF, NY, Charlotte, Houston, etc.), the groups within, and how they stack up against each other.

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The REEF group does Tax Equity financing for utility scale solar, wind, offshore wind, and battery storage projects. So Wells Fargo makes a partnership with the developer company (the sponsor) in which the sponsor will get the financing to build the project and Wells Fargo will receive the tax benefits in the form of PTCs (Production Tax Credits) or ITCs (Investment Tax Credits). The REEF group has 2 teams, the Business Development/Originations team, which sources and diligences the deals, and the Portfolio Management team, which manages how the investments are performing and if and when they are to be sold. 

 

Industrials over FIG is laugh out loud funny. Are we going by fees here? What are we going by? If we’re going by fees, I’d say FIG is doing 3-5x the amount of revenue as industrials. Left WF within the last few years and don’t have reason to believe things are any different. FIG also does most of their M&A in house. 
 

The industrials thing is just a strange WSO narrative. 

 

What are your thoughts about industrials CLT vs NYC? I know the silos are different and that FP&P is one of the biggest which is just in CLT.

 

Top groups are Industrials, FIG, Regal, M&A, and Sponsors

Exits wise, Sponsors is probably the strongest, following by Industrials/M&A

 

Deal flow has been quite high over the past year, and the group has been hiring to support growing deal volume.

In regards to exits, industrials has had solid placement in MM/UMM funds.

 

M&A, Regional Investment Banking (middle-market M&A group), Lev Fin, Healthcare, Industrials, Power — just depends on what you want. 

 

GICG is just the Financial Sponsors Group. They recently changed their name to Financial Sponsors but you will still see GICG as they transition out of their legacy name. 

 

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