The Titans of Banking

Obvioiusly Perella's name and pedigree across his time at First Boston, Wasserella, and MS speaks for his status among the greats, but he still that active with advisory anymore? I do know that Moelis, Quattrone, and Pigasse are full-time advisors, but I thought Perella was semi-retired by now.

Michael Klein

Aryeh Bourkoff

gordon dyal and michael klein. alan hartman cvp

As an ex-European banker, definitely agree with Schenck and Geffroy as absolute titans in the Europe scene. Schenck's arguably the best advisor in Germany out there and Geffroy is incredible in the Europe and Asia FIG.

Since you included Navid, then Jeff Raich (the other co-president at Moelis I believe) can be included though I understand he does more of the MM sell-side work from what I heard as compared to the mega media deals Navid may be involved with 

Justin Katz (CVP), Mark Robinson (CVP), Alan Hartman (CVP), Celeste Guth (PJT), Navid Mahmoodzadegan (Moelis), Andrew Bednar (PWP), Marie-Soazic Geffroy (PWP), Jeff Stute (PWP), Marcus Schenck (Lazard), George Bilicic (Lazard) are definitely among the top dealmakers on Wall Street these days who are a bit less prominent than the names listed above.

Bilicic knocked himself out of this category through whatever happened at Sempra (both his bizarre jump to Sempra & boomerang)

What have these people done recently though? Many of the names haven't announced a deal in 2+ years

How come? Want to know more about Tony

Hi Tony!

Now he's the heir-apparent at CVP.

I thought that was Mark Robinson. Could be mistaken though.

Sean Diskin (Barclays), Tyler Miller (Citi), Anthony Ianno (RBC), Todd Giardinelli (MS), RA McDonough (JPM)

My personal experience with some of the names is that 1) they really are several cuts above in an ineffable way, but really they are 5 tool players. Most MDs have 1 or 2 strengths (execution guru, great presence/client skills, tireless work ethic, technical/intelligence) but fall short in other places. But two things I’ve noticed are different between the GOATs and everyone else are 

1) quickly being able to quickly assess what are the few things that are actually important vs waste of time/negotiating leverage, etc 

2) large cap deals require an immense amount of coordination/alignment and consensus across a large number of decision makers (all who have different agendas and perspectives on a deal). Effective senior banker needs to be behind the scenes conductor that can push the various decision makers towards a consensus of not blocking a deal. They know when to be a yes man with a decision maker and when to be forceful. They know who has influence at the client organization and who is nobody. They know who they need to put in a room together and who they need to make sure to keep apart, etc. 

3) they can negotiate a great EL

remember your advice means nothing if you can’t persuade the client to behave in a way that leads to fee event. 
 

Chris Gallea is the shit

probably a mix of both but i would imagine a lot of the MDs in the top groups at GS/MS are still on par with the other MDs in the groups (i.e. no bad MDs so no one truly stands out) whereas perhaps the "top" MDs at Guggenheim or PWP are singlehandedly holding the franchise up while the rest of the MDs don't do so well.

Wow this is really cool!!! Explain more in depth!

Worked with both Dietrich and Eli - both of them are not only rainmakers but are genuinely great people as well.

Eli's such a nice human being as well. Great to see him promoted.

Carlos announces a lot of deals but most of them are MM no?

The man’s middle name is actually Tiger. I think that is pretty much all the due diligence you need on him.

JP is a really cool dude as well - from a former PS employee

Hard not to add Scott Stevens and James Suprenant to the mix in MM tech services - led Blair's Tech Services practice and now carry Guggenheim PEAG.

Don Cornwell - won almost every major gaming deal for PJT for the better half of a decade (also sold the Bills while at MS M&A)