Vault Banking 50

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 in to business...

Founded in 1995 by Blackstone and U.S. Treasury veteran Roger Altman, independent investment banking advisory firm Evercore went public in August 2006 with an $83 million initial public offering. Since then, the firm has grown into an elite...

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...

New York-headquartered investment banking giant Morgan Stanley is divided into three main businesses: institutional securities, investment management, and wealth management. Institutional securities includes M&A advisory, restructuring, real...

Guggenheim Securities is the investment banking and capital markets arm of Guggenheim Partners, which employs approximately 2,400 worldwide and is headquartered in Chicago and New York. Guggenheim Securities provides advisory, sales and trading,...

Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Bank of America is one of the world’s largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses, and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset...

Founded in June 2006, Perella Weinberg Partners provides advisory and energy securities research, underwriting, and trading services. Its advisory business includes mergers and acquisitions, strategic advisory, financial restructuring, capital...

PJT Partners is an advisory-focused investment bank headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, London, Madrid, and Hong Kong. The firm was created in October 2015 after Blackstone’s advisory businesses...

Moelis & Company provides financial advisory services to corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide. In addition to New York, Moelis has offices in Amsterdam, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Houston, London,...