Chesapeake Corporate Advisors

MAY 6, 2024

Baltimore, MD, May 7, 2024 – Chesapeake Corporate Advisors (CCA), a boutique investment banking and corporate advisory firm in the Mid-Atlantic region, announced that Timothy Brasel has been named a Managing Director in the firm’s investment banking group. Tim holds a B.S. from the Robert H.

Management

Peak Frameworks

AUGUST 10, 2023

Instead, undergraduates often pursue investment banking and finance while obtaining degrees in economics, engineering, and other fields. UCLA has strong elite boutique hiring statistics, with 26% of total investment banking hires going to elite boutiques. UCLA has extremely strong placement into the top investment banks.

Investment Banking

Mergers and Inquisitions

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Think: Engineering, math, statistics, or something with elements of all these, such as “management science” or “operations research.” Internships at regional boutique banks. Smaller firms tend to be a bit slower, so you could find some middle-market and boutique openings, even if the bigger banks are done. Wealth management.

Investment Banking

Chesapeake Corporate Advisors

OCTOBER 16, 2024

“CCA’s deep expertise in the government contracting sector proved invaluable as we guided Vetegrity though this important milestone in the company’s growth journey.” About Vetegrity Founded in 2008, Vetegrity, provides engineering support to the Defense Department and the Intelligence Community. Learn more at www.vetegrity.com.

Investors

The TRADE

OCTOBER 4, 2023

LiquidityBook is set to acquire boutique capital markets fintech provider, Messer Financial Software, in a bid to accelerate its multi-asset capabilities. In addition, the accounting and reconciliation engines of Messer Financial Software will be integrated. Bringing our firms together was the next logical step in this process.”

Portfolio Management

Peak Frameworks

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The Johns Hopkins University is a highly regarded university, with top-ranking programs in medicine, engineering, and the arts. We note that Johns Hopkins has very low placement into elite boutiques. Johns Hopkins ranks #52 overall on our investment banking target school list , earning a designation as a lower semi-target school.

Investment Banking

Chesapeake Corporate Advisors

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

SSATI was founded in 2003 by intelligence industry engineers who knew they wanted to work for a different kind of company. We offer our customers the very best: our team of dedicated, knowledgeable information technology professionals are passionate about staying at the top of their industry. Learn more at www.datasynctech.com.

Investment Banking

Peak Frameworks

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Finance hopefuls often take other majors such as economics, statistics, or engineering. Relatedly, we note that Colgate has very few elite boutique placements, with Bank of America and Barclays hiring the most Colgate students. Colgate is a private liberal arts college and does not have a business school.

Investment Banking

Peak Frameworks

JANUARY 15, 2024

UBC is a highly regarded Canadian university, with notable programs in medicine, law, engineering, and business. UBC sends a strong number of graduates into bulge brackets and elite boutiques, with over 1/3 of hires going into these firms. PMF students consistently place into the top U.S. buyside jobs (e.g.,

Investment Banking

Peak Frameworks

OCTOBER 4, 2023

by student enrollment and has well-regarded programs for engineering, veterinary medicine, and business. This suggests that Texas A&M is fairly well represented across Wall Street (although lacks relationships to elite boutiques). Texas A&M is a public, land-grant research university located in College Station, Texas.

Investment Banking

Peak Frameworks

JANUARY 15, 2024

UofT is one of the highest-ranked universities in the world, with top-tier programs in applied science/engineering, management, and public health. UofT has weaker placement to most bulge brackets and elite boutiques when compared to other top Canadian schools.

Investment Banking

Mergers and Inquisitions

APRIL 24, 2024

We’ll return to this point later, but in finance, it’s more common to do a pre-MBA internship at a small VC/PE firm or boutique bank rather than a bulge bracket bank. If you are making a “hard pivot” career change , such as engineering to investment banking, pre-MBA internships are very useful but not necessarily required.

IT

Mergers and Inquisitions

JULY 12, 2023

This startup claims that its service can boost Analyst productivity by 30% and generate millions in extra fees for the average bank, and it plans to sell it to boutique banks for $2,000 per month. for the engineers), while others are on the high side (sales & marketing), but nothing seems completely crazy.

Capital

Sun Acquisitions

AUGUST 21, 2024

Companies that specialize in personalized sign solutions often have skilled designers, engineers, and craftsmen who possess the knowledge and experience to create high-quality custom signs. Expanding Product Offerings M&A can also help sign manufacturers expand their product offerings to include a wider range of personalized solutions.

Manufacturing

Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 13, 2023

Second, in the past week, VCs arguably engineered this run on the bank by panicking on social media and telling their portfolio companies to withdraw funds. And the middle-market and boutique investment banks don’t have much presence in commercial lending anyway, so they’re not at risk of bank runs.

Banking

Peak Frameworks

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Bill Smith , an engineer at Motorola, can be credited with its inception. Financial firms, from Wall Street giants to boutique investment banks in Europe, have recognized its value. Over the years, it's spread from manufacturing to service industries.

Business

Mergers and Inquisitions

MARCH 13, 2024

Also, you can get in more easily from a middle-market or boutique bank. That said, you are still highly unlikely to win growth equity offers from something like engineering at a tech company or brand advertising.

Private Equity

Chesapeake Corporate Advisors

JUNE 2, 2023

Limiting Company is a 10-year-old cybersecurity business founded by two engineers who worked in the intelligence community. The business operated stably for a few years, then revenue stagnated at $20 million and earnings peaked at 10%. Recently, those figures began drifting downward.

Government

Mergers and Inquisitions

APRIL 19, 2023

But it’s not necessarily required, and plenty of undergrads join these groups via internships without detailed knowledge of the engineering side. The elite boutiques do not have a huge presence in mining, but you’ll sometimes see Rothschild or Perella Weinberg on the list.

Investment Banking

Chesapeake Corporate Advisors

MAY 15, 2025

AMA provides services to government entities, building owners and managers, architects, engineers, and consultants. The Company offers a wide range of EHS services, including safety consulting, industrial hygiene, training courses, energy & environmental occupational health, and engineering design. About The EI Group, Inc.

Consulting

Razorpay

MAY 6, 2025

From fashion boutiques to premium lifestyle chains, brands today expect their POS machines to do more than accept payments. Welcome to the era of intelligent commerce where your POS is not just a machine, but a growth engine.

Retail

Chesapeake Corporate Advisors

APRIL 15, 2025

For example, an engineering firm might discover that certain project types have not been profitable historically because the actual labor spent to complete the work exceeded the budgeted hours. Improved Cost Control and Efficiency FP&A can identify operational inefficiencies and opportunities to reduce costs, helping to boost profits.

Middle Market