Who's the best banker on the street (i.e. if you were a new analyst and you had the opportunity to be a single banker's protege, who would you choose)?
Moelis, Effron, Perella, Mahmood, Boutros, Wasserstein, Grimes, etc?
Forget industry specialization.
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Moelis.
"Bid 'em up" Bruce Wasserstein, in my opinion.
Jim Forbes, head of Global HC at ML. Guy might as well have a money printing machine in his office.
pitchmonkey do you love.work ML? cus you're definitely riding their cock.
Wasserstein or Grenhill
Wasserstein
No affiliation with ML whatsoever. The reason I'm constantly defending them is because, for some reason, people on this board talk about ML like it's losing ground, or falling in the League Table rankings, or whatever. My goal, on this board, is to give people honest information that is correct, and that they can use for career decisions. Too often, some kid in his dorm room writes something like, "ML is shit now, BB&T dominates them," and I can't figure out why that happens. So, in an effort to not have someone make a stupid career move, I back ML b/c they need backing. Most other BBs have other people defending them.
Why do you care in the first place?
One of my tech analyst friends said he would quit to work at Quattrone's new shop (if he ever does create one) cause he's the "best ibanker out there."
Curious to see what others thought.
BTW, I agree with you on Moelis.
Jack Levy
Wasserstein/Perella
Quattrone is out of jail?
I kid ... I kid ;-)
Milken?
I think we all know the answer is Gordon Gekko (not exactly a banker, but...)
its gotta be Perella, the mans worth $800MM
Mahmood/Moelis
Wasserstein. The WP combo is unbeatable.
Wasserstein / Perella -- those guys are like 15-20 years older than Moelis and 25+ years older than Navid.
They also basically invented M&A banking at First Boston.
Moelis' breadth is impressive tho from restructuring, to sponsors to pure m&a. Still, can't compare to the longevity and history of Perella/Wasserstein.
Who are Mahmood and Navid?
Global head of media investment banking at UBS. Like 36 year old MD, and top rainmaker in that space. Univision, Adelphia, NBC Universal etc. in the last year or so.
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/taking-a-page-from-wall-st…
Search for his name on the page, and you'll see a picture.
That magazine is paid for advertising.
Ken Moelis is a great banker, but there are tons of great leaders in the bulge ranks. Navid has done some good stuff, but nowhere near the best banker.
Wasserstein/Perella are the shit. I almost left for Perella Weinberg Partners when they took some MS guys. To be honest Bulge Bracket Banking is mad overrated... who the hell wants to work with ECM and LevFin and pitch converts/staple financing rather than doing pure advisory? Wassertein also turned Lazard into a great boutique to arguably the best boutique in a few years.
You got an offer from Perella Weinberg and didn't take it???
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