Moelis LA vs Allen vs Centerview NY vs Greenhill

BigSwingingJohnson

Whiskey5Centerview by a LONG stretch

HAHAHAHA Whiskey 5, you are a a joke. Moelis LA is the clear choice. ESPECIALLY for an SA.

Centerview might pay you the best if you return for a career. Centerview and Allen are ok IB shops if you want ok rep, good pay and an ok life, but not the top experience or good exit opps if you end up hating banking and no way to make it from SVP to MD. So unless you love banking for 10-15 years and getting the boot or hitting a ceiling, with no way out, don't go here. Real small shops too without a lot of good work for an SA.

Greenhill and Moelis might be on a comparable level as far as boutiques doing sizable deals with work for the SA, but Greenhill SA's have relatively bad exit opps and not a lot of experience. An SA at Moelis LA can work directly with guys like Ken Moelis, work on epic deals, and will actually do real work great exit opps for full time (last two classes were all megafunds Silver Lake, TPG, Ares, Oaktree and also Disney I think). If you don't know if you want to do banking, you will after a summer there and if you do want to use it as a stepping stone, you got great places to go. Hear they have a high SA retention rate also. All around the best choice (if you're willing to work hard for a summer and not looking at the BULGEEEEEEEEEE). #Bulge4Lyf

Note this is specific to Moelis LA.

I'm all for Moelis LA but two points here

Whiskey 5 usually knows what hes talking about, or at least i usually agree with him..

Second, not to discredit anything you said, BUT if there are FT analysts year 1-3 and assocaites that are DYING TO WORK under Ken Moelis, why would they let a SA interact with him in that type of role or level of capacity? Wouldnt the FT ppl literally fight each other for that opportunity? Maybe im mistaken but just find it hard to believe...then again i could be wrong.

Carry on with the rankings lol....

BigSwingingJohnson

Whiskey5Centerview by a LONG stretch

HAHAHAHA Whiskey 5, you are a a joke. Moelis LA is the clear choice. ESPECIALLY for an SA.

Centerview might pay you the best if you return for a career. Centerview and Allen are ok IB shops if you want ok rep, good pay and an ok life, but not the top experience or good exit opps if you end up hating banking and no way to make it from SVP to MD. So unless you love banking for 10-15 years and getting the boot or hitting a ceiling, with no way out, don't go here. Real small shops too without a lot of good work for an SA.

Greenhill and Moelis might be on a comparable level as far as boutiques doing sizable deals with work for the SA, but Greenhill SA's have relatively bad exit opps and not a lot of experience. An SA at Moelis LA can work directly with guys like Ken Moelis, work on epic deals, and will actually do real work great exit opps for full time (last two classes were all megafunds Silver Lake, TPG, Ares, Oaktree and also Disney I think). If you don't know if you want to do banking, you will after a summer there and if you do want to use it as a stepping stone, you got great places to go. Hear they have a high SA retention rate also. All around the best choice (if you're willing to work hard for a summer and not looking at the BULGEEEEEEEEEE). #Bulge4Lyf

Note this is specific to Moelis LA.

Black Jack

Duke4LyfeMoelis LA placement is not overhyped; I know for a fact above poster is correct. Also pretty sure the classes before that were all MF's + Silver Lake (which pays better than most MF's, save Apollo)

I'm calling BS- Moelis has very large analyst classes (larger than other boutiques of its size) and there is no way that they ALL went to MF's and Silver Lake

I think he meant all Moelis LA kids, not all Moelis NY+LA. Overall, Moelis places extremely well-GHL places very well as well, but typically more to elite middle markets

APAE

Duke4LyfeMoelis LA placement is not overhyped; I know for a fact above poster is correct. Also pretty sure the classes before that were all MF's + Silver Lake (which pays better than most MF's, save Apollo)

They have a larger analyst class than most would think. I am not combating how well a number of them place, but they do not have 100% megafund placement, it's that simple. Yes, they have put guys at KKR, Blackstone, TPG, Apollo, Silver Lake, MDP, Carlyle, H&F, Oaktree, and Bain for the past four years running. Does every single one of their analysts place in that range? Nope.

i interviewed with them for SA positions very recently and they said their analyst classes are around 6-7 people each year. i've heard that their NY office has a much larger analyst class though. moelis la had a ridiculously hard interview btw. wish i studied more...

Ask anyone that actually works there - ridiculous placement