Top groups on Wall Street?
What are the best groups on the street and why? Hopefully we can get a huge range of banks and info.
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stop please im BEGGING
inb4 everyone just regurgitates whatever groups they saw commented the last time this was posted
All of them and none of them simultaneously but consecutively
Enron is pretty chill
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UBS tmt doesnt even have seniors lol
Obvious Lehman brahs Elite mortgage team
AN1s clearing $500k
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RBC
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lol all your secondary advisory takes are awful. CS is not a major player. It's EVR at the top. PJT lost a bunch of heads. Greenhill PCA is all but gone and went to Jeff. Jeff does mostly LP advisory and still building out GP side which is where market is going. Don't think anyone would take CS PCA over any of the EBs/GS/Jeff lmfao
I did specially note “don’t take this as a master list - particularly the IB adjacent group”. My secondary list is mostly from how my non-secondary focused MDs talk about them - they could easily be out of date, which, it sounds like you’re more up to date with who has moved where. With that said, PJT Park Hill comes up frequently / I think they are still quite well respected.
What do u guys think about regal groups
Best RE groups are GS/MS/JP/BAML/Citi, I think in that order, but honestly not that different from one another. Eastdil was once a powerhouse, and is still very well respected, but has fallen from its highs. Lazard RE is also solid.
Isn’t eastdil under wells rn?
No, they bought themselves out.
Eastdil have always been a bunch of characters. They were initially the RE group at Eastman Dillon (hence, Eastdil), then split out on their own. Then they were owned by Nomura... and management bought their way out to be independent. Wells Fargo bought them later, and it was an interesting dynamic... At one point, Eastdil made up 2% of the headcount and nearly 30% of the revenue for Wells Fargo's investment banking business. Because they were culturally and economically so different, they were given a ton of leeway to do their own thing - they had their own separate offices (different addresses), their own dress codes (no casual Fridays like at Wells), their own hiring process, and most importantly, their own expense guidelines. Despite all of this, Wells was a constant pain for them, and provided limited benefit. Because of that, management bought themselves out again in 2019, and they're now independent again.
Aye so how’s the culture at Allen & Co?
Lol @ non-traditional IB mentions excluding PJT RSSG.
and EVR
Should have just done PJT/HL/LAZ/EVR RX
Private and alternative credit seems to be really hot rn across the street
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