1
SCORE
9.643
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Founded in 1972, investment banking firm Houlihan Lokey employs
approximately 1,200 people worldwide. Although it's best known
as an advisor to...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
2
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2
SCORE
9.638
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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...
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TRENDING

2013 Rank
1
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3
SCORE
8.725
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Blackstone was founded as an M&A boutique in 1985 by Stephen
A. Schwarzman and Peter G. Peterson, two former Lehman Brothers
bankers. At Lehman,...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
5
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4
SCORE
8.455
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Peter J. Solomon opened his eponymous Manhattan-based firm in
1989. Before striking out on his own, the Harvard-educated Solomon
had spent many years at...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
NR
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5
SCORE
8.338
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Founded in 1995 by Blackstone and U.S. Treasury veteran Roger
Altman, independent investment banking advisory firm Evercore went
public in August 2006...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
6
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6
SCORE
8.278
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J.P. Morgan provides asset management, investment banking,
treasury and securities services, private banking, and commercial
banking services to some of...
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TRENDING

2013 Rank
4
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7
SCORE
8.217
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Founded in June 2006 by Joseph Perella, Peter Weinberg and Terry
Meguid, Perella Weinberg Partners provides advisory, asset
management, and energy...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
8
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8
SCORE
8.121
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Robert W. Baird & Co. (better known as Baird)
offers wealth management, capital markets, asset management,
and private equity capital to clients...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
14
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9
SCORE
7.885
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William Blair's investment banking group enables corporations,
financial sponsors, owner/entrepreneurs, and governments around the
world to achieve their...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
14
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10
SCORE
7.853
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Greenhill calls itself "a unique investment banking firm," and
to be sure, it follows a model quite unlike the structure of its
behemoth...
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TRENDING
2013 Rank
11
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