M&A teams

What is current Wall Street's perception (prestige, dealflow, exit ops) of M&A groups on Wall Street? League tables represent performance of whole IBD teams, not M&A teams in specific.

Excluding GS and BarCap, what would be the ranking of other (Citi, DB, JPM, MS, UBS) M&A groups?

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MS best. UBS worst.

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- Capt K - "Prestige is like a powerful magnet that warps even your beliefs about what you enjoy. If you want to make ambitious people waste their time on errands, bait the hook with prestige." - Paul Graham

+141	Why do JEF bankers always think they’re EB?	53	11h
+68	Is my MD a grifter? 16 years, 8 firms	28	1d
+68	"Corporate & Investment Banking" Analyst - Why?	40	2d
+49	MS / GS IBD ACs London interview processes run by nationality?	43	2d
+42	Moat of modelling in PE/Finance completely vanished;	12	2d
+41	Article: UBS Wall Street Rebuild Is a Study in Management Failure	7	5d
+34	Want to join investment banking; is it too late/is my background unacceptable?	28	1d
+30	Think I'm fucking up my analyst years	9	13m
+28	Ambitious CC Student trying to break into IB	12	13h
+25	Wells Fargo Calling Themselves a BB?	16	3d

1	redever	99.2
2	BankonBanking	99.0
3	Secyh62	99.0
4	kanon	99.0
5	DrApeman	98.9
6	CompBanker	98.9
7	dosk17	98.9
8	Betsy Massar	98.9
9	GameTheory	98.9
10	bolo up	98.8

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