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What is this based on? Deal value or deal volume or prestige? based on M&A only or also ECM and DCM?

In terms of purely European M&A deal value:

move Greenhill to Tier 4 (mostly MM deals and often sourced through US)

move HSBC to Tier 3 (less deals than US BBs but large cap deals across M&A and very strong in ECM + DCM)

move CVP to Tier 4 (some high value but only through US sourced deals and very small deal teams but growing)

move Piper Sandler and William Blair to Tier 5 (mostly MM deals like HL but without restructuring expertise and more LMM)

would also add DC Advisory and Guggenheim in Tier 5 (Guggenheim recently started analysts and interns hiring in UK with plans to grow)

Mediobanca also strong, probably tier 3 for M&A atm

 

See it as a weighted average of EU M&A deal value, deal volume, prestige and potential exit opp

Probably more weighted towards exit opp and prestige

 

Tell me you don’t work in IB within Europe without telling me you don’t work in IB within Europe 

 

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Tier 1: GS, JPM, MS, Lazard
Tier 2: Barclays, Rothschild, BAML, Citi, PJT
Tier 3: BNPP, DB, UBS, PWP, Evercore, CVP
Tier 4: Jefferies, Moelis, Greenhill, RBC, HSBC
Tier 5: Macquarie, SocGen, Blair, Guggenheim, DC Advisory, HL, Nomura
Tier 6: UniCredit, Santander, Credit Agricole, ING, Natixis, Mediobanca, Numis, Berenberg 
Tier 7: Cantor, Piper Sandler, RBS, Stifel, Mizuho, Lincoln, Alantra, Scotia

Tough to rank guys like Qatalyst, LionTree, and Robey.

 

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