Raymond James vs. Sagent Advisors

Interested in people's thoughts on these two firms. Who would you go with if you had a choice between their tech M&A groups (SF)?

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Wasserstag526Sagent, which I believe was started by ex CS guys if I'm not mistaken.

That's right, though before that the founders were heads of M&A at DLJ. Sagent would be my vote as well. They have a decent reputation in tech. Have worked opposite RJ before and was not impressed by their work product. Know a few people at Sagent and they're smart guys, though work pretty hard.

 
theparadoxInterested in people's thoughts on these two firms. Who would you go with if you had a choice between their tech M&A groups (SF)?

I would absolutely go with RJ. Sagent's tech team has miserable deal flow... they haven't closed a real deal in a while.

I think they just fired half of their tech team too.

 

depending on what you would like to do. I am more familiar with sagent after going against them on a couple pitches. sagent i heard did take out half of the tech team so i doubt you have the "choice" in their tech M&A since all their analysts are generalists now. their main IDM guy left to HW sf so their tech practice now is non-existent.

That being said, sagent is still a bigger name compared to RJ and you will get recruited by a handful of buyside shops.

 

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