JPM M&A ending/over??

FT, BBG reporting JP is folding M&A product group into coverage and Anu Aiyengar is out as global head of M&A....

so basically if you're an analyst in JPM M&A right now, are you about to become a coverage analyst? How would this affect HH/PE firm perception of the "group" for exits now ...

anyone at the bank have color on what this looks like.

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End of an era. Have heard it was arguably the most fun bullpen in recent years with amazing WLB + exits.

Conspiracy theory but what if Jamie didn’t like all the exits coming out of M&A to PE so he said time for yall to become coverage bankers and stay A2A lol.

 

If you are folding M&A product into coverage (both US and EMEA I am assuming) then what happens, M&A product guys just get randomly allotted into new coverage teams like the draft lmao

 

Obviously depends on coverage team’s headcount / hiring growth expectations, but I suspect that they get folded into the coverage team of the industry that they worked on the most; not uncommon to see even 1st year M&A analysts be the unofficial “specialists” for certain industries where they see their most M&A deal staffings (at least that’s how it works in my bank)

Either that or they just get fired lol

 
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Anu Aiyengar became the Chairman of Global Banking and M&A, and Charles Bouckaert (ex- GS banker) became the Head of M&A. My take is that this particular change is specifically about how sector-level leadership is structured, not necessarily the elimination of M&A as a practice or business line.

 
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JPM bankers ready to fire those Balkan canons at clients. Fish heads watch out 

 

heard its group placement and there's heavy/disproportionate rush for the top groups

 

Yes, all combined with analysts getting staffed to more of M&A workstreams vs Coverage workstreams while both sitting under the coverage group

 

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