Ernst & Young Global Limited, commonly known as Ernst & Young or simply EY, is a multinational professional services network with headquarters in London, England. EY is one of the largest professional services networks in the world. Along with Deloitte, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers, it is considered one of the Big Four accounting firms. It primarily provides assurance, tax, consulting and advisory services to its clients. Like many of the larger accounting firms in recent years, EY has expanded into markets adjacent to accounting, including strategy, operations, HR, technology, and financial services consulting.
An investment bank is a financial services company or corporate division that engages in advisory-based financial transactions on behalf of individuals, corporations, and governments. Traditionally associated with corporate finance, such a bank might assist in raising financial capital by underwriting or acting as the client's agent in the issuance of securities. An investment bank may also assist companies involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and provide ancillary services such as market making, trading of derivatives and equity securities, and FICC services. Most investment banks maintain prime brokerage and asset management departments in conjunction with their investment research businesses. As an industry, it is broken up into the Bulge Bracket, Middle Market, and boutique market.
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited , commonly referred to as Deloitte, is a multinational professional services network with offices in over 150 countries and territories around the world. Deloitte is one of the Big Four accounting organizations and the largest professional services network in the world by revenue and number of professionals, with headquarters in London, England.
Qinetiq is a British multinational defence technology company headquartered in Farnborough, Hampshire. It is the world's 52nd-largest defence contractor measured by 2011 defence revenues, and the sixth-largest based in the UK.
The Blackstone Group Inc. is an American alternative investment management company based in New York City. In 2019, Blackstone converted from a publicly traded partnership into a corporation.
Fiserv, Inc. is an American multinational Fortune 500 company headquartered in Brookfield, Wisconsin that provides financial technology and financial services. The company's clients include banks, thrifts, credit unions, securities broker dealers, leasing and finance companies, and retailers.
Jefferies Group LLC is an American multinational independent investment bank and financial services company that is headquartered in New York City. The firm provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage, securities research, and asset management. This includes mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, and other financial advisory services. The Capital Markets segment also includes its securities trading and investment banking activities.
Avanade is a global professional services company providing IT consulting and services focused on the Microsoft platform with artificial intelligence, business analytics, cloud, application services, digital transformation, modern workplace, security services, technology and managed services offerings. Headquartered in Seattle, the company has 36,000 professionals in 25 countries. Avanade serves 34% of the Fortune 500 and 46% of the Fortune Global 500.
Evercore Inc., formerly known as Evercore Partners, is a global independent investment banking advisory firm founded in 1995 by Roger Altman, David Offensend, and Austin Beutner.
AECOM is an American multinational engineering firm.
Houlihan Lokey, Inc., is an American multinational independent investment bank and financial services company. Houlihan Lokey was founded in 1972 and is headquartered at Constellation Place in Century City, Los Angeles, California. The firm advises large public and closely held companies as well as institutions and governments. Its main service lines include mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, restructuring and distressed M&A, fairness opinions, and valuations. As of October 29, 2020, Houlihan Lokey employed more than 1,500 employees worldwide.
Berkery, Noyes & Co., LLC is a private middle-market investment bank based in New York City, United States, specializing in mergers and acquisitions advisory and financial consulting services.
Sagent Advisors was an independent investment bank focused on providing financial advice on mergers & acquisitions, sales, divestitures, and private financing solutions. The firm focused on transactions in several core industry sectors, including Aerospace, Defense & Technology, Financial Institutions, Industrial, Automotive, Retail & Consumer and Technology, Media and Telecommunications. The firm also had an active private equity financial sponsor coverage business and a Japan/Asia Focus Group, which provided Cross-border M&A transactions between Japan as well as other Asian countries and North America, formed when Sagent Advisors entered into a business alliance with Daiwa Securities. Sagent Advisors was acquired by Daiwa Securities Group in 2018.
Duff & Phelps, a Kroll business, is a multinational financial consultancy firm based in New York City. Since Duff & Phelps was founded in 1932, the firm has added more than 30 complementary companies to its portfolio, including the 2018 acquisition of Kroll. The original Duff & Phelps was founded in 1932 by William Duff and George Phelps.
Guggenheim Partners is a global investment and advisory financial services firm that engages in investment banking, asset management, capital markets services, and insurance services.
Moelis & Company is a global independent investment bank that provides financial advisory services to corporations, governments, and financial sponsors. The firm advises on strategic decisions such as mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and restructurings and other corporate finance matters.
Juliette N. Kayyem is a former bureaucrat, author and host of the WGBH podcast The SCIF. She serves as a national security analyst for CNN and is a weekly guest on Boston Public Radio. She is the Belfer Lecturer in International Security at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy. She is a former candidate for Governor of Massachusetts and a former Boston Globe columnist, writing about issues of national security and foreign affairs for the op-ed page.
TM Capital Corp. is an independent investment bank with offices in New York City, Atlanta and Boston. The Firm advises clients on complex mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, minority and majority recapitalizations, restructurings, and advisory services including takeover defense, fairness opinions and solvency opinions, and valuations. Industry specialties include consumer & retail, industrial, technology & tech-enabled services, business services and healthcare. The Firm has completed over 350 transactions with a combined value in excess of $25 billion. Its Partners are regularly cited or published in research highlighting current and emerging trends in targeted industries and markets.
CEB, a subsidiary of Gartner, was a global best practice insights and technology company providing products and services to business leaders in IT, finance, HR, customer service and support, legal and compliance, marketing, sales, and supply chain functions worldwide. Gartner announced its acquisition of CEB in January 2017, completed the acquisition in April 2017, and integrated the company in July 2018.
Raytheon Technologies Corporation is an American multinational aerospace and defense conglomerate headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. It is one of the largest aerospace, intelligence services providers, and defense manufacturers in the world by revenue and market capitalization. Raytheon Technologies (RTX) researches, develops, and manufactures advanced technology products in the aerospace and defense industry, including aircraft engines, avionics, aerostructures, cybersecurity, guided missiles, air defense systems, satellites, and drones. The company is also a large military contractor, getting a significant portion of its revenue from the U.S. government.
