Investment Banking in Atlanta?
Although I went to a target school with the goal to head to NYC, I recently decided that it would be in my best interest (family, personal) to go back home for full-time.
What are the investment banks in the area and what is their reputation?
I understand that Truist is the biggest, but does not have the greatest of reputations. William Blair and Guggenheim recently developed an office for MM. Raymond James has a IT/Tech group in Atlanta.
Any other notable firms?
Not your main focus it sounds, but if any interest in buyout, Roark is a strong firm that hires analysts and, to my knowledge, has had well performing funds and raises easily
Roark is very targeted in their recruiting and hiring. Pretty much exclusively hire from Emory, GT, and UVA
Can confirm though they obviously take your usual target schools
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Stephens, TM Capital, and Houlihan (Valuation)
houlihan has an expanding M&A team as well
You should ask our boy from GFI ;)
Regions?
Regions is pretty much all corporate banking though their Capital Markets group is in Charlotte
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Barclays has a C&R team
Citizen's Bank should also be on your radar. They're more focused on M&A but have been expanding rapidly.
Black Arch is an M&A boutique there, but I can't really comment on them.
If you're dead set on Atlanta, Truist is your best bet.
BlackArch is actually in Charlotte, if I'm not mistaken
BlackArch is mainly a Charlotte bank. Super sweaty fwiw
I remember VRA Partners was founded by all STRH MDs and might be worth looking at. I think it’s a small shop tho
To capture all in one place, to my knowledge IBs are: Truist, Stephens, Raymond James, William Blair, Houlihan, Citizens (bowstring), Regions, Configure Partners, Croft & Bender, VRA Partners, TM Capital, Goldman Sachs (small regional office), Barclays (small C&R office), Stifel (KBW), Genesis Capital.
There are some other small ones as well, but the above are all places I know hire analysts.
Most of the above comments are correct but not completely up to date. I know a lot of people who have recruited for Atlanta IB. Shops people generally shoot for are GS (regional coverage), RJ Tech & Services, and Gugg MM Tech. Gugg pulled some MDs from RJ and works with their MM tech groups in Chi, Boston, and Charlotte. RJ historically has had the best exits with some solid MM PE exits over the years but the place is an absolute sweatshop.
Why is this post getting MS thrown at it lol
Ha, I know, weird.
How good is the Truist Atlanta team in terms of reputation, deal flow and exits ?
Lost a lot of their top rainmakers to other banks over the past few years. Not the greatest franchise for M&A but solid DCM practice.
Where would their LevFin fall then?
HL has Business Services M&A, great deal flow, decent culture, not sure about exits. The group has grown from around 5 people to 20 people over the past five years, and the global head of business services sits in the group (great guy, rainmaker poached from Truist).
Guggenheim is another small office, less than 20 people in the office. Know a couple of people in the group and have heard that the culture is great (MDs are very nice). Office is pretty new and the MDs are poached from Raymond James.
Raymond James ATL is solid, although they did lose their top rainmakers to Guggenheim as mentioned above. Still a solid group though.
GS has a SE regional coverage group. The office head is a great guy, and deal flow is great (somewhat TMT and C&R focused). The group works hard but the culture there seems great.
Only know a guy in FIG at Stephens so I can only speak on that group. Deal flow is great (though it's FIG), but the group is extremely sweaty and analysts get worked there.
Truist used to be the top dogs in Atlanta, but they've lost a lot of their top MDs in the years since their merger. Still a large presence, but their M&A presence isn't great.
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