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Large Boutiques: PWP, CVP (esp Biotech/Pharma), EVR

BBs: GS, JPM, MS

MM: Cowen, SVB, HW, WB

 

Jefferies piper for sure as well with all mentioned previously. Would also add jmp after being acquired by citizens and potentially RJ

 
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this one comes back every so often. 

this for example:

https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forum/investment-banking/best-healthcar…

it's hard because not everyone does everything and excels at it.

are you looking at fees? fees per banker? number of deals? specific verticals? specific types of deals (ECM or M&A? sponsor or corporates)...

a few things that stand out:

- JPMorgan probably consistently across all market segments. lots of bodies on the ground. covers all verticals

- some MM firms have very specific angles. Piper dominates in med tech for example. also fees share of Piper, SVB, Cowen for biotech IPO is impressive. for M&A less so (Piper was doing well on spec pharma M&A but their top banker left for Barclays (which is incidentally strong on spec pharma).

sell-side biotech? centerview #1 by far; Lazard fighting for share too. JPmorgan growing presence.

Large cap pharma advisory? most EBs (albeit don't print with every large pharma - exceptions are probably Evercore and Centerview); then JP / MS / GS / BAML (no specific order). Citi somewhat behind; others are more aligned with specific corporates.

CDMO? beyond thre BBs, RBC had a strong market share, but top CDMO banker left for Truist. 

HL is focused on buy & build, also good presence in healthcare marketing companies. some good presence in medtech too (notably Europe, although team is recent)

Jefferies is strong across verticals, quite MM focused, M&A is PE focused as well

 

I think SVBs M&A fees last year were pretty sizeable. About 50%+ of their revenue was from m&a

 

Services kills it volume-wise, pharma still holds a lot of big relationships but low activity from them (besides equity stuff), and unsure what the deal is with medtech after the junior turnover / culture problems. Definitely solid as a whole platform

 

HL, Jeffries, Moelis. for all things services / retail / multi site. You’ll see some BBs win mandates in this vertical obviously but not at the same velocity. I’d say HL wins the most but will average smaller deal size wise.

I don’t know a ton about the other verticals but I know Baird has a pretty solid pharma services platform out in Charlotte.

SVB and Tripletree also have great groups but I’d say are a slight cut below the rest.

 

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