Centerview Partners is an American independent investment banking firm. Centerview operates primarily as an investment banking advisory firm. Centerview has 60 partners and 400 professionals with expertise across a wide range of industries, geographies, transaction structures and sizes.[1][2]
In 2020, achieved record revenue of $1.3 billion, more than double the revenue achieved five years prior.[1] In 2020, the firm was rated "No. 1 Investment Bank to Work For" by Vault for the second year in a row.[10]
The firm is routinely cited as one of the best-paying firms in the industry and has the highest pay for first-year analysts. [11][12]
Management
Prior to co-founding Centerview, Effron was Group Vice Chairman of UBS AG and a member of the Board of UBS Investment Bank, where he also sat on several management committees and advised Gillette on its $57 billion sale to Procter & Gamble, which was the largest M&A transaction of 2005.[13] In 2006, Effron announced he was leaving UBS to form a new boutique investment banking firm.[14]
Prior to co-founding Centerview, Pruzan was Head of Global Investment Banking and CEO of North America at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and President of Wasserstein Perella & Co.[5] He is a former member of McKinsey & Company where he specialized in strategic consulting for consumer products companies and financial institutions.[15]
Honeywell in connection with the resolution of claims with Garrett Motion in connection with its court-supervised Chapter 11 proceedings valued at $1.2 billion
Dentsply Sirona transaction of $1.04 billion for the acquisition of Byte
Arvelle Therapeutics sale for $960 million to Angelini
DuPont sale of Clean Technologies to an international private equity consortium consisting of BroadPeak Global LP, Asia Green Fund and The Saudi Arabian Industrial Investments Company of The Saudi Industrial Development Fund (SIDF) for $510 million still pending
Honeywell sale of Original Muck Boot, Xtratuf, Ranger, NEOS and Servus to Rocky Brands for $230 Million still pending
McDermott International financial advisor to an ad hoc group of secured lenders under McDermott's $2.2bn term loan facility and $800mm funded superpriority term loan facility in connection with McDermott's fully consensual prepackaged chapter 11 restructuring value the transaction at $3.0 billion
Simmons Bedding Company Financial advisor to the Ad Hoc group of Term Loan Lenders under Serta Simmons' $1.9 billion First Lien Term Loan and $450 million Second Lien Term Loan with the transaction valued at $2.35 billion
Sasol sale of 50% of Lake Charles Chemicals Project Base Chemicals to LyondellBasell for $2 billion
Eidos Therapeutics sale to BridgeBio Pharma for $1.9 billion
Pionyr Immunotherapeutics sale to Gilead Sciences for $1.74 billion
Apergy Corp Financial advisor to Apergy on its combination with Ecolab's Upstream Energy business, Nalco Champion, in an all-stock, tax-free Reverse Morris Trust transaction
Acosta Sales & Marketing Exclusive financial advisor to an ad hoc group of Acosta's lenders around its conversion of $3 billion of long—term debt into equity, and a commitment of $250 million in new equity valued at $3.3 billion
Audentes Therapeutics sale to Astellas Pharma for $3.0 billion
Peloton Therapeutics sale to Merck for up to $2.2 billion
Coty Inc. Exclusive independent financial advisor to the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Coty in connection with JAB Holding Company tender offer of $1.75 billion
McDermott International Financial advisor to an ad hoc lender group of McDermott's term loan on an agreement for up to $1.7 billion of new financing
Catalent acquisition of Paragon Bioservices from NewSpring Health Capital and Camden Partners financed by stock given to Leonard Green & Partners and the total value of $1.2 billion
Sprint Corporation Financial advisor to the Independent Transaction Committee of the Board of Directors of Sprint on its merger with T-Mobile valued at $146 billion
21st Century Fox Financial advisor to 21st Century Fox on its sale to The Walt Disney Company, as well as the spin off, immediately prior to the sale, of Fox Broadcasting network and stations, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, FS1, FS2 and Big Ten Network to its shareholders at a value of $85 billion
News Corporation Financial advisor to News Corp. on its separation of its publishing and media and entertainment businesses into two distinct publicly traded companies valued transaction of 9 billion
GMAC ResCap Advisor to ResCap in its chapter 11 restructuring with $15.3 billion of indebtedness, an engagement which has included raising $1.7bn in debtor-in-possession financing and conducting two concurrent asset sales including: (i) ResCap's Servicing and Origination Platform for $3.0bn; and (ii) a portfolio of domestic whole loans for $1.5bn transaction of 15.3 billion
Clearwire Corporation involved in the Sprint 50.8% stake in the company it didn't own in a possible transaction of $14 billion
Exclusive financial advisor to Walgreens Boots Alliance in a unique two-step transaction with Walgreens to create the first global pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing enterprise with the first step worth $6.7 billion and the other left $30 billion
