West Coast EB Groups

friends and I at an east coast target just wrapped up recruiting and there were surprisingly quite a few of us who were gunning for West Coast EBs as our top choices (excl healthcare), so I just wanted to share how we ranked the groups as another data point

Tier 1: Q, CVP PA/SF, MOE LA, EVR Menlo (contentious one, half of us felt it was tier 1 half tier 2)

Tier 2: PWP SF, LAZ SF, MOE SF

Tier 3: Greenhill

Couldn't Rank: PJT SF (they only took 1 intern from a superday comprising female candidates)

this is a highly subjective list based off our collective impressions after research and talking with seniors/alumni, happy to hear what everyone else thinks

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Eh. My friends at Evercore and LAZ have worked on some sick deals and both firms have exceptional exits (although one is far sweatier than the other). LAZ recently did Sony/Bungie and Visa/Plaid. But most ppl only know them for doing all of Google's deals. 

 

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