WF Industrials vs. Energy & Power (Charlotte)

Can anyone speak to the Wells Fargo Industrials and Energy and Power groups, both in Charlotte? I have heard that Industrials is the best coverage group, but given the landscape in the Energy sector, I feel like this would be a good opportunity - is it worth choosing a better group or a group that might be more exciting? Is Industrials really that much better than Energy and Power?

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Agreed, for the most part. I'm very familiar with WF's Energy team in Houston, so if you have any specific questions feel free to PM me.

I'll say a few things about their Energy group. Midstream (i.e. pipelines, midstream, MLP's) is very strong. They've been a major underwriter on the capital markets side of the house for the biggest MLP names and because of that they get a lot of M&A ancillary business because of it, so if you're in that vertical you'll get some solid deal experience.

E&P is a bit different. It's kind of split into two parts. One is traditional IBD coverage that handles corporate M&A and capital markets, second is A&D which in E&P world is oil & gas reserve / acreage sales (technically this is an M&A function but given the transaction volume is much higher on the asset side it's got its own dedicated deal teams). WF A&D is really strong, I see them on deals all the time and you'll get a lot of reps. On the corporate M&A side, they don't seem to be the first call when an E&P company is looking to explore "alternatives".

Not saying they don't do those type of M&A deals, they do, but usually it's a GS, TPH, BarCap, Petrie, etc. With that said, banking M&A services are in high demand right now so I'd guess every bank in Houston is staying really busy right now.

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