Centerview Partners is an American independent

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firm founded in 2006. Centerview operates primarily as an investment banking advisory firm with approximately 80 partners and 500 professionals advising across various industries, geographies, transaction structures, and deal sizes. The firm is headquartered in

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with offices in

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, Menlo Park and

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History

Centerview was founded in July 2006 by Blair Effron, former Vice Chairman of

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, and Robert Pruzan, former CEO of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein North America and President of Wasserstein Perella & Co. In 2010, Robert E. Rubin, former

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, joined the firm as Counselor. In 2019,

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joined the firm to launch the Chicago office. In 2023, Richard N. Haass, former president of the

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, joined the firm as Senior Counselor. In 2025,

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, former White House Chief of Staff and Chairman of the

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, joined the firm as Senior Advisor. In 2024,

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cited Centerview as the investment bank with the fourth highest M&A revenue in the U.S. The firm has also consistently ranked well as a top investment bank to work for, in part for its high compensation relative to the industry, including to first year analysts. In 2024, Centerview ranked fourth among all banks for mergers and acquisitions revenue in the U.S. As of 2025, the firm was rated "No. 1 Investment Bank to Work For" by Vault for six consecutive years.

Management

Before 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

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on its $57 billion sale to

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, which was the largest M&A transaction of 2005. In 2006, Effron announced he was leaving

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to form a new boutique investment banking firm. Before 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. He is a former member of

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where he specialized in strategic consulting for consumer products companies and financial institutions.

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History

Management

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