JPM Mid-Cap Financial Sponsors Group
Curious to hear more about JPM’s MidCap FSG team—work and comp for An1s?
How does the work differ from the LargeCap SIG team (asides from clients covered)?
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Based on the most helpful WSO content, JPMorgan's Mid-Cap Financial Sponsors Group (FSG) operates differently from the Large-Cap FSG team primarily in terms of the size of the clients and deals they handle. Here are some key points:
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If you're considering a role in JPM's Mid-Cap FSG, it could offer a more balanced work-life dynamic while still providing solid exposure to financial sponsors and deal-making.
Sources: Life In The Financial Sponsors Group, Accept mid-tier BB Offer or continue recruiting?, https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forum/private-equity/then-and-now-compbanker?customgpt=1, JP Morgan Exit Opps to Private Equity?
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Just as an industry player who spent time in MM Sponsors / M&A business, it seems like JPM is pushing into the $500mm to $2bn sell side M&A world. When I was more in it at Moelis & HL it was basically like only the boutiques and MM firms who competed for the business. Clients didn’t even have a chance to consider JPM because JPM wouldn’t bid on the business because they didn’t have resources worth their while to run a $500mm sell side deal for a $5mm fee.
Now it looks like JPM wants to push into this space and compete with those said banks. They think the JPM name can carry weight and if they can staff it well enough by hiring bankers who are cool with working in those deal sizes then it would seem to be a profitable line of business for JPM to keep growing its IB.
That said I recall hearing then HL head of Corp Fin and now CEO Scott Adelson saying in 2019 that he has seen the BBs try to go down market from time to time during his career and HL and its competitors have generally won out. I think I even remember Ken Moelis saying in 2016 something along the lines of “no one at GS who does these MM deals is going to be respected as in the path to CEO there”. So maybe things have changed now at the BBs but time will tell.
My own take is yes, JPM can win this business but it may be more for the commercial bankers to try to pivot into IB as opposed to the hotshot HBS or MBAs or aspiring mega cap IB bankers to take a happy step back and work on smaller deals.
work and comp wise I would figure it’s more like working at a MM IB like Houlihan or Piper or Lincoln. I have worked on both MM and mega cap deals. MM deals can be more “cookie cutter” in terms of cranking out a model, coaching management, building a CIM, running an auction etc. mega cap deals involve more politics, strategy, lots of other advisors like teams of lawyers, accountants, different corporate divisional heads getting involved. Regulatory concerns too. Yes there is modeling and all that involved but other factors may play a bigger deal as those mega cap deals can be assessed on a decades timeline as opposed to MM M&A where the sponsor just wants to put together a solid 5 year plan of how to double EBITDA and then sell to a bigger sponsor or find a public corporate to tuck it into.
Curious other takes as well.
Really appreciate this in-depth response.
Re: your last point, find it interesting that you specifically mentioned MM sponsors and selling to larger sponsors. Curious to hear if MM sponsor exits have a particular “flavor”? That is to say, do you see a majority of these exits being specifically sales to larger sponsors, or sales to strategics, etc?
Thank you!
Thanks. You’re welcome. From what I have personally seen and in the rooms I was in for the deals I was a part of, JAMMBOs generally aspire to build something big enough to sell to a public strategic/corporate. Those guys are seen as having the ability to pay top dollar for synergy or strategic value like growing in a key market/product. Generally JAMMBO portcos from what I have seen don’t get big enough to IPO and be public platforms themselves. That’s moreso seen in MFPE where a BX or a CD&R can take a portfolio company public. Or Apollo or Carlyle or KKR or the bunch.
If the JAMMBO can’t get it to a strategic then generally the playbook was a bigger sponsor like a UMM/MF. With the latest turmoil maybe that means a CV instead or something or just worst case selling the business for parts / taking out dividends to try to return capital.
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We barely have an FSG team, now we have an FSG MidCap team?
Jokes aside, if any BB can break-in to middle market in a meaningful way, its JPM, who has the connectivity at the retail and commercial banking side. That said, the FSG-specific side of middle market is ED/MD la la land. Its all networking coverage and there's very very little use (and therefore upward mobility) for analysts and associates. SIG =/= FSG by the way.
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