Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 10, 2024

If you want to read angry comments and long threads with plenty of insults, you can’t go wrong with the wealth management vs. investment banking debate. And wealth managers at large banks may advise people with as little as a few hundred thousand to invest. The truth is that both claims are correct but incomplete.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Even though we’ve covered industry groups vs. product groups and teams such as M&A , ECM , DCM , and Leveraged Finance , we continue to get questions about capital markets vs. investment banking. The questions usually go like this: Are capital markets teams (ECM, DCM, and LevFin) “real” investment banking? Do you learn anything?

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 22, 2023

Before delving in, though, I want to start with the elephant in the room: I was partially wrong ~5 months ago when I wrote about Credit Suisse, UBS, and Deutsche Bank, and whether they would become Lehman Brothers 2.0. per share when it was trading above $8.00 – it’s starting to feel a lot like 2008. ” So, what happened?

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Mergers and Inquisitions

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

If there is one sector that has attracted even more hype than technology and TMT , it might just be renewable energy investment banking. But before jumping into the overall advantages and disadvantages, let’s start with the verticals and how banks are set up: Table Of Contents What is Renewable Energy Investment Banking?

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The TRADE

MAY 24, 2024

That is something that the mid and smaller brokers can access relative to the bulge bracket who don’t really see that as an important USP for the business right now. It is about creating a much bigger situation when you trade those names. Retail trading remains highly topical. The path of travel is very clear.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 18, 2024

After a few turbulent years stemming from market volatility, rising interest rates, geopolitical turmoil, inflation, soaring energy prices, client performance, fee pressures, a mini banking crisis, looming regulation, constant tweaking of risk models, rising client complexities and the notorious Archegos saga… well, things are looking up.

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Wall Street Mojo

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

When listed as publicly traded companies, they mostly become small-cap and micro-cap stocks trading on the exchange. You may also find some useful articles here – Top 10 Middle Market Investment Banks List Bulge Bracket Top 10 Bulge Bracket Investment Banks

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How2Exit

MAY 23, 2023

Richard grew up in the suburbs of New York City and went to college, later working for a boutique investment bank. This prompted Richard to apply to law school and he graduated from law school while working at the investment bank. He then worked for what are called bulge bracket investment banks, mostly in the capital market space.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While everyone seems to know about equity research and trading stocks, fixed income research gets far less attention. The confusing part is that fixed income research exists at banks (“ sell-side roles ”), buy-side firms such as asset managers and hedge funds , and even credit rating agencies, and each one differs.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This partially explains why sports investment banking has become a hot field, with JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs launching their own sports coverage groups. For a long time, sports teams and franchises were not worth that much, so banks rarely put their “A-Teams” on these deals. What is Sports Investment Banking?

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Mergers and Inquisitions

APRIL 5, 2023

Trade Surpluses – Some countries, like Singapore, are not rich in commodities but serve as trade hubs and generate significant revenue from these activities. So, your best option in most cases is to gain traditional investment banking or private equity experience and use that to move in. If you are a U.S.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JANUARY 22, 2025

People are convinced that financial modeling in equity research is vastly different from investment banking and that research requires different or more specialized skills. Traditionally, banks gave away equity research reports for free to incentivize large clients to trade with the bank.

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The TRADE

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Order and/or execution management systems (OEMS) Kicking off this whistle-stop summary as the number one most impactful innovation in the industry is the order and/or execution management system (OEMS) – the beating heart of trading desks around the world. CLS Coming in at number three is the multi-currency settlement system, CLS.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

JUNE 5, 2024

How can I move from wealth management to investment banking ? It’s arguably the most difficult “front office to front office” transition within finance, so you should probably start by considering why you want to make this switch: Table Of Contents Why Switch from Wealth Management to Investment Banking? I hate this job.

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Mergers and Inquisitions

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Only wealthy individuals and institutions could invest, so governments cared less about PE firms than commercial banks and brokerages. The main issues here are: 1) The “private funds” industry has grown tremendously since 2008 and has over $25 trillion in assets , more than the entire commercial banking sector in the U.S.

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Cooley M&A

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

However, by Q4 2023, banks largely had cleared acquisition debt taken on in 2021 (such as Citrix and Twitter) from their balance sheets and were assertively looking to reenter the acquisition finance fray. Still, average leverage levels in sponsor buyouts declined from 7.1x in 2022 to 5.9x

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Mergers and Inquisitions

MAY 14, 2025

The most difficult part of infrastructure investment banking is defining the exact verticals and deal types it covers. Like renewable energy IB , different banks classify their groups differently, so you could find yourself working on everything from a data center REIT M&A deal to an airport financing to an IPO for a solar developer.

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