SF Banking

Recent threads on LA banking have been very helpful and I want to extend the west coast conversation to San Francisco. If anybody has a good feel for the banking scene here, could you please share your thoughts / experiences? Especially interested in learning more about GS, MS, JEF, CVP, Laz and any other reputable firms that come to mind in this area. TIA!

 

Shout out Qatalyst for your list. $54,045mm in transaction size for 2020 only doing tech. 

 

Doing well in terms of deal flow in the past few years. MDs at the office were previous BB rainmakers, office is laid back but everyone is very sharp. Exits consistently UMM/MF Tech space.

 
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Ah yes, because each incremental thread is so cumbersome to you on this free internet platform, sorry to inconvenience you, managing director.

Or, some threads might be out dated? Information changes? The search bar on this site kinda sucks? Hilarious how hard people mentally get off to saying “oh this has been discussed ad nauseam plz srch” when the last useful post is from like 2015.

 

2022 update on Barclays: Barc has also been doing really well lately and the analysts have the option to work exclusively out of the new SF office which is really nice (previously Menlo Park only). Agree that Qatalyst pretty much dominates majority of $1bn+ tech M&A, but Barc has been exiting pretty well in SF (one went to Symphony, one went to Search Light, and one in the current class will be going to a MF)

 

JEF SF been doing real well with a lot of M&A / LevFin activity. Sweaty ass culture but good deal flow and recent on cycle exits include Clearlake and Onex.

 

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