<p>Wow collegebound just got spanked by prestige…</p>
<p>collegebound,</p>
<p>frankly, I am done “schooling” you. education ain’t free.</p>
<p>try doing some homework and come back when you are ready to sit at the big boys table.</p>
<p>I agree with the_prestige. CS is a major IBank. Along with UBS, it is one of the great Swiss IBanks, and Switzerland has been at the forefront of Wealth Management for over a century. The following banks are all huge:</p>
<p>Citigroup
Credit Suisse
Deutschebank
Goldman Sachs
JP Morgan
Lazard Freres
Lehman Brothers
Morgan Stanley
UBS</p>
<p>CS is not close to UBS in wealth management (probably 1/3 of the size), but it is definitely a power in investment banking (which UBS most definitely is not). I also don’t think that Lazard belongs in the same group with the others ex-UBS. Lazard has grown, but still does not have near the scale and the breadth of the others. </p>
<p>There are many firms that play a role in certain niches of the investment banking world. The ones mentioned above and a few others (Bear Stearns, HSBC, Wachovia, etc.) probably play a larger role than most in the industry, but the number of investment banks and firms that can provide some investment banking services is quite long. Here is a list of some of those firms: </p>
<p>• A. G. Edwards (bought by Wachovia)
• Bain Capital
• Bear Stearns
• Blackmont Capital Inc.
• BOC International Holdings Limited
• Boenning & Scattergood
• Bryan, Garnier & Co
• Canaccord Adams
• C.E. Unterberg, Towbin
• Close Brothers Group
• CLSA
• Cowen Group, Inc.
• Dresner Partners
• Edward Jones Investments
• FALCOM Financial Services
• Ferris, Baker Watts Inc.
• Financo, Inc.
• Friedman Billings Ramsey
• Gabelli
• Genuity Capital Markets
• Goldman Sachs
• Greenhill & Company
• Harris Williams & Company
• Hilco Corporate Finance, LLC
• Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin<br>
• IL&FS Ltd. (Mumbai)
• Indigo Capital Holding Inc. (New York)
• Investec
• JMP Securities
• Janney Montgomery Scott
• Jefferies & Co.
• Jordan, Knauff & Company
• Keefe, Bruyette & Woods
• Ladenburg Thalmann
• Lazard Capital Markets (spun off from Lazard 2005)
• Legg Mason
• Lehman Brothers
• The McLean Group
• Mediobanca
• Merrill Lynch
• Midtown Partners
• Miller Buckfire
• Moelis & Company
• Morgan Stanley
• Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc.
• Mufson Howe Hunter & Company LLC
• Needham & Company
• Newbury Piret
• Newsouth Capital Management inc.
• NIBC
• Noble Bank
• Nomura
• Oppenheimer & Co.
• Pacific Growth Equities, LLC
• Piper Jaffray
• Pharus Advisors
• Provident Healthcare Partners, LLC
• Raymond James
• Remington Financial Group
• Revolution Partners
• Robert W. Baird & Company
• Roth Capital Partners, LLC
• N M Rothschild & Sons
• Sagent Advisors
• Salman Partners Inc.
• Sandler O’Neill + Partners
• Stanford Group Company
• Stephens Inc.
• Stifel Nicolaus
• ThinkEquity Partners, LLC
• Thomas Weisel Partners
• T. Rowe Price
• The Potomac Company
• Transparent Value
• William Blair & Company
• WR Hambrecht + Co </p>
<p>and some that combine investment banking and commercial banking services and/or insurance</p>
<p>• ABN Amro
• Alliance Investment Bank Berhad
• Allianz (Dresdner Kleinwort)
• Banco Santander (Santander Global Banking & Markets)
• Bank of America (Banc of America Securities)
• BNP Paribas
• Bank of Montreal (BMO Capital Markets)
• Barclays (Barclays Capital)
• BIDV - Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam
• Calyon
• CIBC (CIBC World Markets)
• Citigroup
• ESN European Secutities Network (Banca Akros, Bank Degroof, Caixa Banco de Investimento, Caja Madrid Bolsa, CM-CIC Securities, Danske Bank, Equinet, Investment Bank of Greece, NCB Stockbrokers, SNS Securities)
• Eurohypo
• Credit Suisse
• Deka Bank
• Deutsche Bank
• FALCOM Financial Services
• Fortis Bank
• HSBC
• ING Group
• JPMorgan Chase (JPMorgan Securities, Inc.)
• Kaupthing Bank
• KBC Bank (KBC Financial Products)
• KeyCorp (KeyBanc Capital Markets)
• Lloyds TSB Group Plc (Wholesale and International Banking)
• Macquarie Bank
• Midtown Partners (PIPE Investment Banking)
• Mizuho Financial Group (Mizuho Corporate Bank)
• Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS Finance)
• Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (Nomura Securities Co.)
• Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotia Capital)
• Rabobank
• Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS Global Banking & Markets)
• Royal Bank of Canada (RBC Capital Markets)
• Soci</p>
<p>collegebound9696,</p>
<p>the funny thing is CS does recruit at Northwestern, at least the MMSS students. very interesting.</p>
<p>hawkette, </p>
<p>I agree to a degree with your comments on Lazard. </p>
<p>It is a boutique, so it does not have the varied deal flow of a BB such as GS/MS/LEH; however, I just want some people not to think any less of the bank; it is still very much an M&A powerhouse with incredible prestige that competes with many of these BBs on huge deals. </p>
<p>Additionally, its exit opps are equal and sometimes better to top PE shops such as Blackstone, TPG, Carlyle, etc.</p>
<p>Lazard does well on many of the high profile M&A transactions, but has a much, much lower profile in the corporate finance area which historically is a steadier business. We may look back on 2005-07 as the golden years of M&A and PE. God knows that Wall Street’s fee-sponsored revenue has skyrocketed in the last few years and well connected (on a variety of levels) banks have benefitted most. Lazard’s relationships have been well leveraged in this time, but the business (and the job opportunities in and out of the firm) are cyclical. It will be interesting to see if they strategically try to expand their overall business presence or stay more of a boutique.</p>
<p>Good Point.</p>
<p>To be honest, I am not quite sure what the boutique intends to do. Its bread and butter is M&A, and from what I can tell Wasserstein hasn’t expressed any intentions to institute major shifts. A saving grace is that it has a solid restructuring practice which might become more important now than ever.</p>
<p>Now that you bring it up. It would seem logical to expand its business, as while it is still a premier M&A shop, the emergence of Greenhill and Evercore has it competing even harder for business that it traditionally would have won with ease.</p>
<p>Some of you stated awhile back that some of these firms still use SAT scores to screen applicants. Does this mean they use cut-offs? Also, do we actually have to send score reports and tell them how many times we took it? If not, I might as well take it 10 times and see how I do 
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<p>That’d be funny if I had to re-take the SAT’s even after being accepted…
I’d probably be one of the only second semester seniors in the entire testing room! xD</p>
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<p>collegebound,</p>
<p>FWIW, there are plenty of Dartmouth students who get recruited by credit suisse for internships (fall, winter, spring & summer) along with entry level employement.</p>
<p>carry on…</p>