2025 Best Banking Firms for Racial & Ethnic Diversity
Centerview Partners
In 2006, UBS Vice Chairman Blair Effron had dinner with his friend Robert Pruzan, a veteran investment banker and former CEO of Wasserstein Perella. The two men decided to capitalize on the lucrative M&A boom by going into business together,...
Loop Capital Markets
Loop Capital is a full-service investment bank, brokerage, and advisory firm that provides capital solutions for corporate, governmental, and institutional entities across the globe. Founded in 1997 by James Reynolds, Jr. and Albert Grace, Jr.,...
Evercore
Founded in 1995 by Blackstone and U.S. Treasury veteran Roger Altman, global independent investment banking advisory firm Evercore went public in August 2006 with an $83 million initial public offering. Today, the firm employs more than 2,200...
Moelis & Company
Moelis & Company provides strategic advice and solutions to a diverse global client base, including corporations, institutions, governments, and financial sponsors. Headquartered in New York, the firm operates across 23 locations in the...
Guggenheim Securities
Guggenheim Securities is the investment banking and capital markets arm of Guggenheim Partners, which employs more than 2,400 people worldwide and is headquartered in Chicago and New York. Guggenheim Securities, which employs more than 1,100...
Perella Weinberg
Founded in 2006, Perella Weinberg is an advisory-focused investment bank with expertise across mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and liability management, financing and capital markets advisory, and shareholder engagement, analytics, &...
Lazard
Founded in 1848, Lazard has advised on some of the most significant mergers and acquisitions in Europe and the Americas since the beginning of the 20th century. The firm's modern history can be traced to the year 2000, when the “three houses of...
PJT Partners
PJT Partners is a global advisory-focused investment bank headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Madrid, Paris, Frankfurt, Munich, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Dubai, and Riyadh....
Morgan Stanley
New York-headquartered financial services giant Morgan Stanley is divided into three core businesses: Institutional Securities, Investment Management, and Wealth Management. Institutional Securities include investment banking (M&A advisory,...
DC Advisory
DC Advisory is an international investment bank. As part of an established global business, it offers access to over 750 professionals in 24 locations throughout Asia, Europe, and the US. Across 11 industry-focused teams, the firm offers...