Most Prestigious Banking Firms

Goldman Sachs provides a wide range of investment banking, securities, and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individuals. Widely...

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,...

J.P. Morgan is the investment banking unit of global financial services behemoth JPMorgan Chase & Co., which as $3.8 trillion in assets and more than 250,000 employees. JPMorgan Chase is the product of the 2000 merger between J.P. Morgan...

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...

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,...

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....

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 2008 by Frank Quattrone and two of his colleagues at Credit Suisse, Qatalyst provides M&A and strategic advisory services to established and emerging companies in the technology industry. Qatalyst’s practice spans across four main...

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, &...