2025 Best Banking Firms for Culture
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,...
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, &...
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...
Harris Williams
Harris Williams is a global investment bank specializing in M&A and private capital advisory services, with offices in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Frankfurt, London, Minneapolis, New York, Richmond, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. 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...
Greenhill & Co., LLC
Greenhill calls itself “a unique investment banking firm,” and to be sure, it a service model quite unlike its behemoth competitors. The firm focuses primarily on its advisory work, which includes mergers, acquisitions, restructurings,...
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...
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....
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...
William Blair
William Blair is a global boutique with expertise in investment banking, investment management, and private wealth management. It is headquartered in Chicago, with offices in more than 20 cities on four continents. The firm helps corporations,...