Boutiques and their top industry groups

I have a list of investment banking boutiques. Feel free to list and discuss top industry groups (top 3 or top 5) at each bank from experience, word of mouth, news and so on.

Evercore PJT Centerview Lazard Guggenheim PWP Houlian Lokey Rothschild Moelis William Blair Baird

Sorry if I missed any banks. Feel free to talk about any banks I missed. Thank you!

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I have heard about the following groups or verticals within the banks below are relatively strong:

Evercore - RX, Tech, Industrials, Retail PJT - RX, Media & Telco Centerview - Tech & Media, Consumer & Retail Lazard - HC, Industrials Guggenheim - Media & Telco, HC Houlian Lokey - RX Moelis - RX, O&G William Blair - Tech

 
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Rothschild - Healthcare, Consumer & Retail, RX Lazard - Healthcare, TMT, RX PWP - Industrials Centerview - TMT, Consumer & Retail

 

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