Firms of the Decades: IB, PE, S&T, HF, CO

I recently watched an NBA Open Court segment about teams of the decade for basketball and thought about doing something similar at first for IB then expanding for the other industries. What criteria would you use to rank firms? Top Deals, CEOs, Deal Makers, Deal Flow, Pay, Lifestyle, reputation at that time? And no GS can't win all decades. Hopefully this can serve as brief history for new and aspiring monkeys from the go-go days to today.

Top firm of the 70's:

IB:
Top IB Deal:
PE:
Top PE Deal:
VC:
S&T:
Top Trade:
HF:
Top Trade:
MBB:

Top firm of the 80's:

IB:
Top IB Deal:
PE:
Top PE Deal:
VC:
S&T:
Top Trade:
HF:
Top Trade:
MBB:

Top firm of the 90's:

IB:
Top IB Deal:
PE:
Top PE Deal:
VC:
S&T:
Top Trade:
HF:
Top Trade:
MBB:

Top firm of the 2000's: 2000-2007 before the FC

IB:
Top IB Deal:
PE:
Top PE Deal:
VC:
S&T:
Top Trade:
HF:
Top Trade:
MBB:

Top firm of the 2007-2010 During FC

IB:
Top IB Deal:
PE:
Top PE Deal:
VC:
S&T:
Top Trade:
HF:
Top Trade:
MBB:

Top firm 2010-2018 current

IB:
Top IB Deal:
PE:
Top PE Deal:
VC:
S&T:
Top Trade:
HF:
Top Trade:
MBB:

 

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