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Guggenheim.

Both up and coming banks in the North American M&A space (Canadian banks like RBC and BMO have built up a solid presence recently), but I think Guggenheim has built a better name for itself with the Verizon deal and I see foresee them growing very quickly in the next few years. Their analysts get worked extremely hard, but seem to get great deal experience.

Note: I am not at Guggenheim.

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but I haven't had any experience with Oppenheimer.

Just in case anyone was wondering.

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RBC for sure. Great culture, growing firm, and I've seen some of their guys recently exiting to decent places. Guggenheim has done very little (lets not point to 1 deal and make a generalization about the quality of the firm) and is an asset manager for all intent and purpose. Still have a ways to go before anyone thinks of them as a legitimate player in M&A. Obviously this is all personal opinion, but I would take RBC without a doubt.

 

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