RANKING BB AND EB 2020

Time to rank EBs and BBs. Too often are only one of these ranked at a time. For EB, ignore rx and just rank on m&a please. Pure exits ranking, ignore the higher comp of Centerview for instance.

PJT, Evercore GS, MS, Centerview JPM, Moelis, Lazard Citi, BAML Barclays, Credit Suisse, PWP UBS, Greenhill DB

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Tier 1a: JPM, GS Tier 1b: Evercore, MS Tier 2a: BAML, CS, Moelis Tier 2b: Barclays, UBS, Citi Tier 3a: Centerview, PJT, PWP

Unrankable: Lazard (massive layoffs), DB, Greenhill

This is specifically for M&A

 

Lazard has cut 1/3 of its employees. That's not nonsense its been confirmed by Patrick himself. Maybe you should actually pay attention a bit more before making such comments. I'd wait until Lazard finishes its restructuring to rank it.

DB's equity cuts has brought its name down from where it used to be. Even though that was in S&T, such effects have rippled through to the IB division making the exits from the group weak currently

Of course the DB and Lazard rankings will change once their restructuring is complete but until then the banks cant be ranked

 
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PJT, Evercore, GS, MS, Qatalyst

JPM, Centerview

Moelis, Lazard

Citi, BAML, PWP

Credit Suisse, Greenhill, Barclays

Guggenheim

RBC

Jefferies

Wells Fargo

DB, UBS

 

I'm assuming you intern at Qatalyst or PJT? Neither of these firms have exit opps better than JPM, you are kididng yourself here.

 

I don't know of any other threads that have ranked the banks like this. I don't see what the issue is, especially because the whole EB vs BB discussion is important to the future of advisory.

 

"Pure exits ranking" - says nothing about deal flow, so maybe you should be the one to "read what the OP asked for." This horse has been beaten to death and usually there is very little to back up arbitrary tiers, plus things like group / location matter a ton too. Just garbage with a ton of interns / students just regurgitating info they might have heard.

 

Alright 2nd year analyst. Instead of making a comment that adds little value why don't you actually input something meaningful about deal flow/exits

 

Where does the prestige chase end? Cornell considered a "low tier ivy", UBS/RBC considered a "low tier BB" and now this. Trying to brag to your Moelis buddies that you are better because you work at Evercore. Where is the contentment in life? At this rate KKR won't even be pleasing you'll be looking at working for a HF next.

 

Can you guys rank S&T at this firms? Whats the top to the bottom?

 

S&T is more difficult to rank because quite frankly it boils down simply to a $ sign. How much profit the group makes in the market is what determines "success". Obviously that changes from year to year. The prestige element isn't really a factor.

 

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