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Have come across them on a few recent deals. I thought they were competent, professional, and likable people. Seem to play mostly in the infra / renewables space for early stage projects & companies.

Appear more focused on putting financing deals (private credit refis, project finance, corporate revolvers, LC facilities, etc) together than M&A advising.

 
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If you’re not familiar with what “strong group” means, you can spend a couple minutes browsing this forum. Plenty of good content defining what that means. 

It’s not as simple as comparing one boutique to every single firm in the entire MM category. You have to compare group to group. You can spend a minute looking the backgrounds and deal experience of PEI’s team on their website, you can easily find their dealflow as well. I’m not an expert on the firm but I can answer your question generally. 

More generally, first of all, get an offer. If you have multiple offers, pick the one that interests you more. If both interest you, then compare the quality of talent and clients and dealflow between groups, and pick the one that’s better. If all that is comparable then of course go for the bigger, better, more well known brand.

If your offer at an “elite MM” is for a group that mostly hires community college grads, has MDs that pitch for years, and does a single $20mm deal every 4 years, and your offer at a boutique is for a group that hires sharp students from good school, works with great clients in their space, and does multiple notable deals a year, then to me it’s a easy decision. Long story short compare “group to group” not “firm to firm.”

 

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