2026 Vault Rankings
At a Glance
“There is no better culture on the Street and the people are truly amazing—supportive, caring, intellectual, and hardworking.”
“Exposure to high-profile clients and transactions, generalist experience, good foundation for analysts—firm invests heavily in the career development of their bankers.”
“The compensation.”
“Lean deal teams are a double-edged sword—while you get more experience as a junior banker, you do end up working a lot and the hours are fairly unpredictable.”
“No protected weekend policy.”
“Generalist model involves working on industries you do not enjoy.”
About 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, opening a boutique they dubbed Centerview Partners—the name came from the view at their new office on the 19th floor of Rockefeller Center. The firm has since moved to larger offices in New York; it also has offices in London, Menlo Park, Paris and San Francisco. And today, that firm’s clients include 20 percent of the 50 largest companies in the world.
At Centerview, there are just two lines of business: M&A advisory and restructuring/capital solutions, with both businesses addressing strategic, financial, and operational issues for its clients. (An affiliated capital group focuses on the U.S. consumer middle and upper-middle market, most recently through the creation of two SPACs, both of which have been successfully invested.) Since Effron and Pruzan's vision was realized, Centerview has added additional high-powered bankers and promoted many partners from within.
In its 20-year history, Centerview has worked on numerous huge deals, including Sprint’s $146 billion merger with T-Mobile, Paramount’s pending $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, BAT’s $97 billion merger with Reynolds American, SABMiller’s £79 billion sale to AB InBev, 21st Century Fox’s $85 billion sale to the Walt Disney Company, Time Warner Cable’s $79 billion merger with Charter Communications, CVS Health’s $77 billion acquisition of Aetna, Exxon Mobil’s $64.5 billion acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources, Kenvue’s pending $49 billion sale to Kimberly-Clark, CBS and Viacom’s $48 billion merger, Seagen’s $44.5 billion sale to Pfizer, Royal DSM’s €40 billion merger with Firmenich, Energy Future Holdings’ $42 billion restructuring, AstraZeneca’s $39 billion acquisition of Alexion, Capital One on its $35 billion acquisition of Discover, Blackstone, Carlyle, and H&F’s $34 billion majority investment in Medline, Scale AI’s $29 billion investment from Meta Platforms, and Paramount’s $28 billion merger with Skydance.
The firm has also given restructuring advice relating to Avaya, Blackhawk Mining, Caesars Entertainment, Chicago Bridge & Iron, CTI Foods, Garrett Motion, GTT Communications, One Call, PG&E, and Westmoreland Coal. Overall, Centerview’s partners have advised on more than $4 trillion worth of transactions since Centerview was formed
31 West 52nd Street
New York, NY 10019
Phone: (212) 380-2650
Employer Type: Private
Co-Founding Partners: B. Effron, J. Kilts, R. Pruzan
2025 Employees (All Locations): 600
Menlo Park, CA
San Francisco, CA
New York, NY
London, United Kingdom
Paris, France
M&A Advisory
Capital Raising
Financial Advisory and Consulting