2025 Best Banking Firms for International Opportunities
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...
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...
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...
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, &...
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,...
Houlihan Lokey
Founded in 1972, investment banking firm Houlihan Lokey employs more than 2,700 people worldwide. Although it’s best known as an advisor to mid-cap companies and a restructuring house, Houlihan Lokey also serves large public corporations and...
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....
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...
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,...
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,...