M&A advisors

A firm like one of the global investment banks advises on dozens of transactions a year. The largest run hundreds of mandates across many sector teams in offices around the world. At that scale, a handful of reviews would represent a vanishingly small sample. A few reviews of a global investment bank would say more about the small number of partners involved than about the firm as a whole.

Boutique advisors are different. A boutique typically completes between one and thirty sell-side processes a year, often with a tight team led by the same two or three senior partners on every mandate. Reviews of a boutique are meaningful precisely because the firm is the partners. Five reviews of a boutique tell you something real about who you would actually work with.

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