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0 of 22 hedged
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Liz’s view
Who buys Perella Weinberg?
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Who → buy → Weinberg
Who cares, says this reporter, who chased that tip for months.
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who → care → months
Competitive hackles aside, the ranks of the independent advisory boutique now seem like so much ego detritus, a horse painting above a fireplace.
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ranks → seem → fireplace
The case for boutiques hasn’t disappeared — there will always be a place for independent advice from talented bankers — but the ground has shifted.
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ground → disappear → bankers
By one recent estimate, $1.2 trillion needs to be raised just to fund the AI buildout.
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trillion → need → buildout
This era rewards balance sheets boutiques don’t have.
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boutiques → reward → sheets
A decade ago they felt new and exciting, a corrective to bloated banks oozing conflicts.
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they → feel → conflicts
Now they just feel like furniture.
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they → feel → furniture
Paul Taubman, who left Morgan Stanley in 2013 to hang out a shingle, was the last star whose exit made a meaningful dent in the M&A leaderboard.
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exit → leave → leaderboard
But he added talent and new businesses to move PJT Partners beyond his own Rolodex.
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he → add → Rolodex
Almost nobody has followed.
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nobody → follow → ?
Of the 30 most active M&A banks today, as tracked by Dealogic, only one was founded after 2013, a sentence as true today as when I wrote it three years ago in a eulogy for Wall Street rainmakers that seemed to offend everyone who read it.
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who → track → it
It’s honestly baffling.
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It → ’ → ?
With AI, it’s never been easier to scale personal relationships into a book of business.
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it → scale → business
The tools exist.
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tools → exist → ?
The talent and ambition seem not to.
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talent → seem → ?
What we have instead is limping consolidation.
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have → limp → consolidation
Greenhill, founded by M&A legend Bob Greenhill, hung on long enough for Mizuho to absorb it as the New York face of Japanese lending firepower.
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Mizuho → found → firepower
BDT & MSD has an investment arm to smooth out lumpy M&A fees and, I’m told, passed on buying Perella this year — it doesn’t need another 500 relationship bankers.
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it → have → bankers
Lehman star Skip McGee recently sold his boutique, Intrepid Partners.
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McGee → sell → boutique
Now Perella Weinberg, founded by M&A royalty Joe Perella and Peter Weinberg, is in talks to sell to Piper Sandler, which was itself formed by the 2019 merger of two boutiques that couldn’t hack it alone.
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that → found → it
Having covered the golden age of the rainmaker, it’s all a bit of a bummer.
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it → cover → bummer
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