Jefferies is a sweatshop, Ardea is great from an experience standpoint - high exposure lean deal teams and great pay. Fenchurch is very technical and reflects in their deals - growing out US franchise. IAP and Howden a bit smaller / not as built out

 

Ardea is great to become a career banker. Above street pay and huge deals relative to firm size.

Piper Sandler is one of the big time advisors on community bank M&A. They also do other financials but that’s the bread n butter. If you don’t want to advise on community bank A’s acquisition of community bank B, then it’s probably not for you.

Also, following the Piper acquisition, as well as the recent tepid pace of deal making, some Sandler folks have left or been axed. Not sure who is left.

 
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