What's been going on at Moelis Houston?

Curious to know what transactions their energy team has been working on, if they've been busy, and general culture with all the Gugg and Citi guys. 

Also want to know how the clean tech group is

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From all that I have heard, read and asked here, they have zero deal flow and the new hires have had no positive effect. They were brought to do upstream and clean tech but ive not seen Moelis on any upstream deals and there are about two big ones every week. One persons view. Jeferies, RBC, JPM, Evercore even GS is where the deals are happening

thanks for the insight - intern / consultant. 

these guys have been at moelis for 3 months. nobody hits home run M&A transactions that quickly into joining a new bank. good grief. 

 

They do a lot of international RX work - if you are a private company doing an out of court process, that transaction won’t be public. Also do a ton of family office work - same concept of privacy applies to this as well

 
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It's only been six months since Trauber got there, you can't really make a judgment either way yet. It usually takes a while to get ramped up at a new place, can be a year+. This time next year if they don't have some things announced with a bunch of live projects in the pipeline then sure. 

I'm not making a call either way, very well could be in the same place a year from now. Making the transition from a balance sheet bank to a boutique is tough if your schtick is "large corporate M&A". If you aren't in the revolver you're written off from a ton of those opportunities right out of the gate. You usually need some kind of edge that justifies tossing you on the mandate (often as a co-advisor) like hyper technical MDs, an expansive A&D team, or Skip McGee being golf buddies with the CEO.

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