Small IB shops in London

I know that this is a US based forum but I want to know how do I find these firms? Am I just expected to know these firms (I clearly don’t) or do you guys follow a site of some sort that has a list of all IB firms in London?

Where do I have to go to find these small to mid IB shops?

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To be honest, there is not an evident source to find the small shops in London. Mergermarket could be a good source, but if you're not in the industry you won't probably have access to it. The best way to know the small players in London is by working at a MM boutique and doing networking. Compared to the US, the numbers of small shop in London is smaller, since Big 4 firm take a significant market share of the MM spectrum, a few names that come to my mind are these: 

- Results International (Healthcare and Technology)

- Aqua Partners (Technology)

- PharmaVentures (Healthcare)

- Torreya (Healthcare)

- Alantra (Agnostic)

- Peel Hunt (Agnostic) 

- Fenchurch Advisory (FIG)

- Goetzpartners (Healthcare, Industrials and Retail) 

- Arma Partners (Technology)

- Panmure Gordon (Agnostic)

- Torch Partners (Tech)

- Hannam & Partners (Metals, Mining, Energy, and FIG) 

- Arrowpoint Advisory (agnostic, they are the MM branch of Rothschild

- Alexa Capital (Energy and Tech) 

- BDA Partners (M&A Asian markets) 

- Augusta & Co (Energy and Infrastructure) 

- Gordon Deal & Co (agnostic)

- Equitec (Technology, Marketing)

- FinnCap Cavendish (Agnostic)

- Acuity Advisors (Industrials, Technology)

- TAP Advisors (agnostic)

- Kroll (agnostic) 

This is a list of the small shops operating in the Lower MM space. Then for deals over 250M you have larger boutiques such as Houlihan Lockey, Jefferies, Lincoln International, Baird, William Blair, Stifel, Pipper Sandler, Stephens, Harris Williams, Cantor Fitzerald, Cannaccord Genuity, Bryan Garnier & Co, Gleacher Shacklok, DC Advisory...

These were the names that came up to my mind, I am sure I am missing some, but I hope you find it helpful. 

 

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