Currently a 1st year analyst and looking to recruit for EBs in LA. I know Moelis is the top shop in LA but looking to see how PWP, Centerview, and Lazard stack up against each other. Looking to learn more about deal flow, pay, prestige, and culture.
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PWP focuses on industrials M&A; Lazard works on aerospace & defense M&A; no idea what centerview’s LA office does. Based on culture and deal flow, I heard PWP and Lazard are pretty great. But based on exits, Lazard’s analysts have done much better than PWP. I think a lot of this is bc PWP’s LA office only kicked off 5 years ago and is still a pretty new group
Moelis is the top shop in LA, and is generalist but has a heavy focus on Media & telecom and C&R M&A. Lazard LA is very strong, has a Media & Gaming as well as ADG in the office. Media & Gaming is solid, and ADG has very strong dealflow, the office makes a killing on middle market sponsor sell-sides. Culture in the office is great as well from what I've heard. PWP LA is Industrials, and is smaller than Lazard and Moelis LA, but they're really solid and have great large-cap and mid-cap deal flow. I didn't even know CVP had an LA office.
Any insight on Houlihan la?
HL LA RX is a top group but their m&a group is not as strong. Their m&a is usually LMM-MM.
The RX group is the top in the city for what they do, their regular IB division focuses in Business Services and does a lot of MM work
CVP LA isn’t really an “office,” no juniors sit in LA (same deal with Chicago, which was created for Rahm). US offices are NYC, SF and Palo Alto.
Why do they have offices in SF and Palo Alto?
Palo Alto covers tech and SF covers healthcare if I’m not mistaken
Centerview LA takes one analyst a year if i’m not mistaken
Huh, what’s the source on that? I am an analyst in the NYC office and know no one that sits in LA — not saying it’s impossible but never come across them
Not an EB but does anyone have any color on Morgan Stanley LA? Culture, experience, deal flow…
Any insight on PWP?
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