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A boutique investment bank is an

reorganizations are their primary activities. Boutiques usually provide advisory and consulting services, but lack capacity to provide funding. After the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, investment banks have either had a retail deposit base (JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Bank of America) or have had funding from overseas owners or from Wealth Management arms (UBS, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley). Boutique banks on the other hand often turn to other banks to provide funding or deal directly with capital rich firms such as insurers
to provide capital for deals.

Boutique investment banks generally work on smaller deals involving

reorganization. Typically, boutique investment banks may have a limited number of offices and may specialize in certain geographic regions, thus the moniker 'regional investment bank'. Traditionally, boutique investment banks are specialized in certain fields of corporate finance and thus not full-service. However, the term is often used for non-bulge bracket full-service investment banks, banks that are also known as middle-market investment banks.[1]

History

During 2014,

Great Financial Crisis, is cited as a primary reason for the ascendancy of these boutique firms. However, advances in technology which permit the outsourcing of all non-core aspects of the firm have also been cited as a cause of this David versus Goliath
phenomenon.

Working at boutique investment banks generally requires working fewer hours than at larger banks, even though the majority of boutiques are founded and led by former partners at large banks.[5][6]

As larger investment banks were hit hard by the Great Recession of the 2000s, many senior bankers left to join boutiques, some of which largely resemble the partnerships that ruled Wall Street in the 1970s and 1980s. Boutique investment banks took a greater share of the M&A and advising market at the same time.[7]

Large, prestigious boutique firms include Evercore, Lazard, Centerview Partners, PJT Partners, Rothschild & Co and Moelis & Company.[8] While these may be full-service and international in scale, they are significantly smaller than and do not offer the breadth of products and services of bulge bracket investment banks.

Services

Boutique investment banks may be engaged in providing one or more of the following services:[9]

  • Connecting clients, especially with regard to IPOs or further stock offerings.
  • Mergers and Acquisitions advisory
  • equity securities
  • Capital raising (e.g. private equity deals; not as common due to small firm size)

Notable boutique investment banks

The following is a partial list of notable boutique investment banks:[10][11]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Middle Market Investment Banks: Careers, Deals, and Exit Opportunities". 2020-01-15. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
  2. ^ Brian DeChesare and Daniel Schäfer (Mar 16, 2014). "Small proves beautiful at boutique banks". The Financial Times.
  3. ^ Michael J. De La Merced (Dec 9, 2014). "Boutique Investment Banks Gain Prestige". The New York Times.
  4. ^ "Trading Places". The Economist. Dec 6, 2014.
  5. ^ Swarns, Rachel L. (March 23, 2014). "Banks Urge Young Analysts to Do the Unthinkable: Take Weekends Off" – via NYTimes.com.
  6. ^ Carney, John (October 30, 2013). "Why Goldman Sachs wants junior bankers to take weekends off". CNBC.
  7. ^ Martin Hutchinson (Dec 23, 2009). "Bank on little change". Asia Times. Archived from the original on December 25, 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-23.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  8. ^ Investment Banking Boutique Firms (PDF), Columbia University Office of Career Services, August 2012, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-09-13
  9. ^ "Boutique Investment Banks - List of Prominent Boutique Banks". Corporate Finance Institute. Retrieved 2019-12-30.
  10. ^ "Top 20 Boutique Investment Banks in 2023 (Updated List)". www.careerprinciples.com.
  11. ^ "Boutique Investment Banks: Examples, Careers, Compensation, and More". 12 February 2020.
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