Hi, I am currently at a mid-market investment bank in London such as Jefferies, William Blair etc.. and have recently been contacted by a recruiter at one of Mooreland Partners / GP Bullhound regarding a potential move.
I was wondering if anyone had any insight into places like GP Bullhound or Mooreland Partners in general i.e. how they compare with other tech M&A boutiques such as Qatalyst Partners, Arma Partners or other M&A firms such as Jefferies / William Blair in the tech sector (i.e. would it be a step down to move one a bank such as one of these to a place like Mooreland Partners or GP Bullhound). More specifically (if possible) an insight into GP Bullhound / Mooreland Partners in London would be great.
Would appreciate any info.
Thanks
No word on specifically GP Bullhound London, but I worked in one of the Offices in the US and it was a pretty good ride. It's a smaller shop here but London, as you know, is the HQ so ops is there (which is really helpful when things like printers break & expenses need to be done).
From what I took away from it the bank was a volume shop. Deals were never really over $100m from what I saw / heard through the weekly meetings, but we would have about 6 or 7 projects going at any one time.
Def Qatalyst Partners > GP Bullhound to answer that one.
You can take a look at their software perspectives/research here: https://www.gpbullhound.com/research/global-software-market-perspective… Good luck & I hope it helps!
Thank you for your reply!
How did you find the work itself? My worry of going to a very small boutique would be the inefficiencies when it comes to performing administration work that the compliance/finance/personal assistant/IR team would normally do such as filling out long forms in relation to transactions, performing regulation / due diligence checks on clients, admin etc..
Are you able to offer any insight into this?
Thank you.
I mean all the KYC / DD stuff was standard when I was there. In terms of infra you’ll be in the HQ city so inefficiencies will be minimized. I was a Summer Analyst so all the admin work I had to do was really just expense reports which were seamless until the end of my time there.
I don't really see the point of transfering to such a boutique, they do smaller deals, will pay less for similar hours. Specifically in tech I would say that Qatalyst=Arma=Jeffs>WB>Mooreland=GP Bulhound.
Qatalyst competes for bigger deals but their team is insanely small (below 10), Arma and Jefferies are competing on similar deals - often £250m-1B, WB as well but its reputation is the sector is worse.
Mooreland and GP seem to do very small deals. Best of luck!
How would you describe the exit opps from somewhere like Arma and Qatalyst in London? I'm currently at a MM boutique that does some tech and am hoping to trade up to something better.
People usually leave to VC/GE just because of the types of deal they do and comapnies they cover, but plenty of people have moved from Arma to BBs/EBs should they want to and can do PE from there. Qatalyst pays very well, thus it is mostly about leaving IB and most people go into VC/GE.
Any insight into size / deal flow in Qatalysts London office? Is it strong or more feet on the ground for the American office like other EB's in LDN
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