Top Healthcare Groups for exposure (overall)? (NYC)

Hi, hoping to see if anyone has insight or access to information that sheds insight on the top healthcare groups on the street? Are there certain firms that outperform in this area over others?

I understand there are various verticals and sectors in Healthcare and some firms may outperform others in that particular area but was hoping to see overall wise, which firms would be the strongest in the Healthcare space for an overall healthcare investment banking experience.

From research and previous threads it seems top groups HC overall:

BB: 1.) GS/JPM 2.) Barclays/BAML 3.) Citi 4.) MS 5.) CS 6.) DB/UBS

Middle Market/Boutique: 1.) Piper Jaffray 2.) PWP 3.) Jefferies 4.) Centerview

Would be great to see if anyone can shed insight on this or have any information.

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BB are accurate according to my friend at a megafund but he also said DB is very strong in health care technology so it might deserve its own tier.

 

Depends what you consider when you say overall healthcare investment banking experience. If you only mean M&A, which is not even close to an overall experience, then Centerview runs healthcare at the moment and it is not even close. They seem to be on every single large biotech sell side for the past 18+ months. If you want to work with clients through the entire process of healthcare, then you would be much better suited at a middle market bank that focuses on being an advisor at every stage. Healthcare is one of the more fragmented sectors in banking with much smaller firms generating substantial fees due to their specialty in the sector.

 

Bunch of smaller boutiques and capital market-heavy shops out there that you didn't name that all do deals and therefore have solid experience in my opinion (I know people at most of these). Just to rattle off some that may or may not be named here in no particular order: Leerink, Cowen, Cantor (big bad Sage Kelly), Torreya, MTS, Cain, TripleTree, Canaccord. All of these do capital markets and/or M&A deals of various sizes and have a good name for themselves. Not sure if all of these are in NY so apologies if I fucked that one up.

Dayman?
 

Not an expert on HC banking but I believe Lazard has been very strong recently. One of their top groups other than RX. On CVS/Aetna, Express Scripts/Cigna, etc.

 

True but if the question is overall healthcare exposure than not as much. Lazard has done good work in healthcare IT (did the big teladoc livongo deal during Covid) and healthcare services as you mentioned.
 

However, their biotech team is definitely middle of the pack. Their team is a lot smaller than the other EBs and is more similar to a Moelis in their frequency on advising on large biotech transactions than say a CVP or EVR.

For a full breadth of solid coverage I think you have to look to the BBs given they usually cover all subverticals and will do both debt and equity financing. It’s been mentioned before but GS and JPM are still very dominant with MS and BAML and nowadays Jefferies in solid contention. 

 

I would definitely take GS, slightly stronger deal flow in M&A and better exits. Also GS might be more consistent with the high bonus. Both are amazing opportunities though.

 

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