Relative strength of each Bulge Bracket and Boutiques

Hey monkeys,

Let's have a discussion of what are the relative strengths of each Bulge Bracket and Boutiques. For example, I have heard that morgan stanley performs the best in M&A , is it true? let's write down the selling point of each companies!

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Here's a post I made earlier this year

All of the below are based on either league tables, hearsay, my own prejudices, or things I learned in history class.

Consumer: JPM or Goldman or Barclays
Energy & Power: MS or Citi or Evercore
FIG: JPM
Healthcare: JPM
Natural Resources: BMO, RBC, Macquarie Industrials: Citi or BAML or JPM
TMT: Goldman or BAML or JPM
Retail: Goldman
RGL: Goldman or JPM
Clawing back your bonus: DB
Being the best bank in Japan and the worst bank in NYC: Nomura

Middle Market MM Consumer: Lazard, followed closely by Houlihan, Baird, Blair
MM Healthcare: Jefferies and Piper, but Baird and Blair are nipping at their heels
MM Industrials: Baird by far
Place where my friends who went there are the happiest: SunTrust, TD MM Restructuring: Houlihan
MM TMT: Jefferies, Blair, Baird - but this is a huge tossup depending on how you cut it.
MM's Most Toxic Culture: Piper, Lincoln, Houlihan, Lazard, Jefferies
Intern Licking: CS

 

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I don't know... Yeah. Almost definitely yes.

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