Curious about how different JEFF groups would currently rank in prestige, deal flow, MF placement, and bonuses. Here is what consensus was for the past couple of years.
T1: Energy, Healthcare
T2: Industrials, LevFin, Tech
T3: FIG, RX, M&A
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Where’s M&A?
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Energy #1. Huge year.
Industrials pretty good with that SRS/ Home Depot Whale
I’ll caveat the below by saying that almost every coverage group has great deal flow by the virtue of Jefferies being the top MM - and playing up to the BB level.
Tier 1A:
Energy - The top group at Jefferies in terms of deal flow, exits (get looks at any / every energy / infra fund), pay (rest of the groups pay the same at the analyst level) and probably the worst group when it comes to WLB. Have also recently built out an energy transition team in Houston but they aren’t cross staffed with energy and pay is worse.
Healthcare - Strongest NY based coverage group. Great exits to MM and healthcare funds. Probably the hardest group to place into coming out of your internship.
PCA - Not traditional M&A but I will place them into tier 1 due to being the leading PCA group alongside EVR. Great exits into secondaries focused funds
Tier 1B:
LevFin - Jefferies’ deals are usually fueled by their LevFin abilities and analysts get great reps within this group since they hold the pen on the models. Exits mostly to MM / UMM
Tier 2:
FIG - hired a bunch of CS FIG bankers and has since been able to climb up the league tables. Extremely sweaty by the nature of the team that came over from CS. TBD on exits since it’s been only a couple of years the team grew but expect exits into fig-focused roles.
Industrials - Does middle of the pack MM deals for the most part so would expect exits into MM / LMM roles.
M&A - the group has lost its shine since most top coverage groups do their own modeling now but exits are still really good with a lot of MM / UMM exits.
Tier 3:
Consumer, REGL, PUI, RX - relative to other groups pretty weak. REGL does a lot of Fertitta deals though so there’s that.
Thoughts on Tech/the SF office?
Great insights. I agree.
Is the consumer team that bad?
It's not bad per se. They have solid deal flow but relative to other groups it's a smaller team and gets overshadowed a bit / there's nothing to write home about.
What would you say about the Energy Transition team independently? Their dealflow seems great so far, and I’m pretty sure base is equal to traditional energy.
Started off strong (primarily deals brought over from Guggenheim) but hasn’t closed a deal recently vs. traditional energy which it seems like has announced a deal every other week this year.
Rich Handler alt account at it again.
How is the culture and hours of the healthcare team?
Bad and a lot of
This. No life group and Toxic.
Good exits though if you're OK with being a slave for 2/3 years.
Sweaty. Although culture and hours are somewhat dependent on whether you’re working on life sciences or services deals (the latter is worse).
Makes sense in terms of hours. Jefferies has been arguably the most active group in the middle market HC services space since the mid 2010s. Heard it's a very button-up culture vs. some other groups that are more easygoing. Really strong exits to NYC MM HC-specific PE funds. I feel every fund I follow in that fund range has at least one ex-Jefferies banker.
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