Most Prestigious Banking Firms

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...

J.P. Morgan provides asset management, investment banking, treasury and securities services, private banking, and commercial banking services to some of the world’s largest clients. J.P. Morgan is headquartered in New York, and has international...

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...

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 1848, Lazard has advised on some of the most significant mergers and acquisitions in Europe and the Americas since the beginning of the 20th century. The firm's modern history can be traced to the year 2000, when the "three houses of...

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...

Credit Suisse Group is one of the world’s largest financial services providers. It offers clients expertise in the areas of private banking, investment banking, and asset management. In 2015, Credit Suisse appointed Tidjane Thiam as its new CEO,...

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...