What are the top corp dev teams around the country?
What are the top corp dev shots that have heavy deal flow. What % of big corp dev teams do all their work in house and don’t bring in outside banks?
I think quality is subjective here but AAPL used to be a machine in acquihiring small cutting-edge technical teams to keep their products superior but idk clearly things aren’t going well there today. CRM is basically a holding company at this point, so if you’ve been there for the long-term you could have some exciting transactions under your belt (informatica Slack, Tableau, etc). I’d bet they want to scoop some hot AI startup at some point to “supercharge AgentForce” or something. NVIDIA would be a spectacularseat in my opinion. They have more money than God right now and have what is seemingly the best position to capture real value in this AI gold rush. Plus the culture there is fantastic with a generational founder that Jensen Huang is. Palantir would be sick too for obvious reasons - probably the most powerful software company there is right now…for better or for worse. Those would likely be some of the more interesting seats on the tech side.
Historically, UnitedHealth Group corp dev gets a lot of deal flow. Strong reputation in the healthcare services / payer space. Not sure how they're doing now given all the scrutiny. Some payers have internal VC arms too which seem like interesting places to work in (top of my head - I know UHG, Cigna, and Humana have VC arms). I know people at J&J and Cigna who've done corp dev stints, both have been on deals where Centerview was an advisor (either on the buy or sellside I forget).
I know of some smaller health plans that do interesting partnerships and/or have a unique non-profit angle to their business which makes corp dev / venture deals purely on what would add value to their members. They tend to recruit ex-operators / consultants, not so much bankers. These are much smaller deals and unlikely done via bank advisors.
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