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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 in to business...

Founded in 1995 by Blackstone and U.S. Treasury veteran Roger Altman, independent investment banking advisory firm Evercore went public in August 2006 with an $83 million initial public offering. Since then, the firm has grown into an elite...

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...

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...

Guggenheim Securities is the investment banking and capital markets arm of Guggenheim Partners, which employs more than 2,200 worldwide and is headquartered in Chicago and New York. Guggenheim Securities, which employs more than 950...

New York-headquartered investment banking giant Morgan Stanley is divided into three main businesses: Institutional Securities, Investment Management, and Wealth Management. Institutional Securities includes M&A advisory, restructuring, real...

Founded in June 2006, Perella Weinberg advises clients on mergers and acquisitions execution, shareholder and defense advisory, financing and capital solutions, capital markets advisory, and private capital placements. Also, following the 2016...

Greenhill, which closed its acquisition by Tokyo-based Mizuho Financial Group in November 2023, calls itself “a unique investment banking firm,” and to be sure, it follows a model quite unlike the structure of its behemoth competitors. The firm...

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...