2025 Vault Rankings
At a Glance
“Fantastic culture and incredibly smart, caring, talented, driven, high-quality people”
“Early responsibility, great mentorship, and working on big, interesting deals that matter”
“Excellent compensation”
“Hours can be long and unpredictable—when it’s busy, it’s very busy”
“Very demanding”
“Growing pains—business is growing faster than infrastructure”
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 advisory, with both businesses addressing strategic, financial, and operational issues for its clients. (An affiliated capital group focuses on high potential, growth-focused technology companies, as well as 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 several additional high-powered bankers and brought total headcount up to over 550.
Though small in size, Centerview has worked on numerous huge deals, including Sprint’s $146 billion merger with T-Mobile, 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, 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, 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, UK
Paris, France
M&A Advisory
Restructuring
Capital Raising