West Coast Exit Ops - 2012

Which West Coast have been placing their analysts into top buy-side PE/HFs?

Is it commonly agreed upon that these are the top shops (in no particular order)?

San Francisco/Bay Area: MS Menlo GS SF CS SF Qatalyst

Southern California: GS FIG CS LA Moelis Houlihan FRG

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I have no idea if that is the concrete ranking, but I would be surprised if Qatalyst wouldn't be higher up. Then again, Qatalyst does sell-sides only, so I guess it would be hard to talk about buy sides in interviews if you've never experienced one. Then again, I heard one guy went to KKR from Qatalyst, go figure.

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[quote=Matrick]I have no idea if that is the concrete ranking, but I would be surprised if Qatalyst wouldn't be higher up. Then again, Qatalyst does sell-sides only, so I guess it would be hard to talk about buy sides in interviews if you've never experienced one. Then again, I heard one guy went to KKR from Qatalyst, go figure.

See here: www.linkedin.com/pub/samuel-lim/10/a43/a63[/quote] kkr and accel-kkr are totally different

 
monkeyboihow about lazard in la?

Lazard in LA is a strong shop, one of the few execution focused places in LA.

From what I heard dealflow hasn't been amazing lately and they're not the most supportive for the Analysts making the jump to buy-side

 
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monkeyboihow about lazard in la?

Lazard in LA is a strong shop, one of the few execution focused places in LA.

From what I heard dealflow hasn't been amazing lately and they're not the most supportive for the Analysts making the jump to buy-side

meh I'm not sure about them not being supportive, all of the analysts (2 total) that I know that worked there are now at very reputable buyside firms

 

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