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Bulge-bracket is a term used in corporate finance to describe the largest and often most prestigious investment banks. Although there is no strict metric for this classification, bulge-bracket investment banks typically represent clients with transaction values in excess of $50 million. [NOTE: www.PrivateEquityInfo.com segregates investment banking firms by the enterprise value of the firms’ typical [...]

Corporate finance advisory firms may be broadly classified  into three main categories:

Bulge Bracket
Middle Market
Business Broker

Although there is no strict metric for these classifications, Private Equity Info segregates the firms by the enterprise value of the firms’ typical clients as follows:

Bulge-bracket investment banks generally represents clients with transaction values in excess of $50 million (unless there [...]