UNDISPUTED RANKINGS - 2021

BB Rankings:

  1. Goldman Sachs / Morgan Stanley / JPM

  2. BofA / Citi / Barclays

  3. Credit Suisse / RBC

  4. Wells Fargo / DB / UBS


EB Rankings:

  1. PJT / EvercoreCenterview / Qatalyst

  2. PWP / Lazard / Moelis

  3. Guggenhiem / Houlihan (Note: both RX teams would be tier one)

  4. Rothschild / Greenhill


MM Rankings:

Jefferies / Raine / Cowen / Baird / William Blair


Meh, weak groups:

Stifle / Nomura


 

while everyone shits on WF being equal to CS, no one is going to say something about RBC==Barcap??

 

Qatalyst should be right at the top of EB's, and Raine should be somewhere in honorable mention. 

 

it should be at the first tier of EB's. Because it is literally no. #1 in TMT & the only things that even come close is GS, and maybe MS. 

 
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Look at 2021 YTD League Table, pledge. Take out WF and RBC from the BB table, include Jefferies there, and then put DB as 5 and UBS as 6.

 

OP then should just link this website instead of his own honest opinion, tbh Jefferies will never be a BB. Also, this is just 2021 Q1 earnings.

 

OP then should just link this website instead of his own honest opinion, tbh Jefferies will never be a BB. Also, this is just 2021 Q1 earnings.

It isn’t just Q1 earnings lol. Jefferies has been outperforming since the past couple of years. It pays slightly above street at analyst level but that scales up considerably as you rise through the ranks and the top performers are paid at the EB level. This isn’t to say that it is at the Goldman level but I think it’s fair to say given it’s historic and future trajectory that it is at UBS/DB level (maybe even slightly ahead in IB) and above the other balance sheet and MM banks. 

 

Lets Assume that you are looking at this table: https://www.factset.com/hubfs/mergerstat_em/monthly/US-Flashwire-Monthl…

I would still put Jefferies Wells and RBC all in the same category as they are above a 1 billion deal value per deal.  I know that some people are going to say that well RBC and Wells are much lower on the transaction volume but, if we are not LQA the Q1 leagues tables and generally looking at 2018, 2019, and 2020 league tables (Excluding RBC 2020 as it looks like it was a really bad year for them)   generally they are much closer (RBC closer than Wells) to overall volume of the biggest players.  

 

I'm not sure why this thread has so much MS... The rankings are very accurate

 

Barclays is EX-Lehman, which was a better brand than Citi. League tables are not very accurate. Citi is a huge balance sheet bank, and often receive M&A credit when on the deal only for financing, not for M&A work. This is the case for every BB, but much more so with Citi/BofA than others. Also Citi is arguably the most global bank (which obviously is a great thing and has its pros), but once again misleading in terms of league tables because they have a much larger percentage of deals outside the US (many in very remote areas). Even just in the way they hire at the junior level, it is clear that Barclays is viewed as more prestigious. Barclays hires more candidates from top schools, and they do so while recruiting on the later side of things. Citi takes a bunch of non-core candidates, possibly the biggest diversity bank, and they recruit 6+ months ahead of the top 5 BB's (GS, MS, JPM, BAML, BARC) in order to try to pressure candidates that wouldn't normally go with Citi. Bigger does not always mean better, and Barclays is clearly viewed as better by more candidates. Not to mention better culture and in-house M&A. 

 

Not sure why this got MS, There are way more solid groups at Barc than Baml (FSG, Levfin, M&A) and Citi (M&A)

 

Move JPM up with GS/MS or at least by itself. Barclays on par with the likes of BofA and especially Citi. RBC doesn't belong with CS, move down with DB/Wells/UBS. Boutiques look good.

 

agree - Outside of the M&A group Citi should be in tier 3, Barc/Baml the only real banks that belong in tier 2 and even then Baml not strong outside product groups (M&A/Sponsors/Levfin) and MAYBE Consumer

 

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