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As I've heard it from multiple places / seen in terms of recent announcements, when you constrain to US BBs, GS and MS. GS TMT is arguably the best group on the street and MS Tech M&A is of the top groups as well.

Of course, this is going to turn into a "but my bank is awesome too!"

 

GS does not have a dedicated Tech M&A team per se, although their TMT team out in SF is arguably the best tech coverage team on the Street. As mentioned, MS in Menlo Park has both a tech coverage and a tech M&A team - the latter being one of the strongest in its domain and traditionally places very well into PE. CS Tech M&A in SF would be third on my list, very well respected in the industry and also places well.

 

Agree with everything you said tothedeath - just wanted to clarify, GS TMT in SF does tech M&A and tech coverage, it's just not a separate team.

Small note, CS Tech in SF is combined - analysts/associates are staffed on both M&A and coverage. Would have mentioned in my earlier post, but OP asked specifically about US BBs.

 

Barclays also has really stepped their tech coverage game this year, but not sure how they split up m&a duties. I guess they picked up some hitters from Lehman last year out here. Idk if I would rank them w/ the usual suspects however. Oh yeah Piper Jaffray's pretty bad ass too cough cough, ;)

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