Blair Effron has been a very busy man.
In 2006 he left UBS and teamed with a bunch of Wall Street all-stars to launch Centerview Partners, a small investment bank with operations in several international cities.
Since then, he has put the biggest investment banks on Wall Street on notice, taking business from industry stalwarts used to working on the largest transactions in mergers and acquisitions.
The roster of Effron's megamergers that Centerview has advised includes a pantry's worth of food and beverage deals: Anheuser-Busch InBev, Kraft, HJ Heinz, and other snackmakers. The bank has also participated in megamergers that are reshaping the tobacco industry.
They're not all huge. Centerview was the sole adviser to the Massachusetts-based biotech firm Dyax, in its $5.9 billion sale to Shire that was announced Monday morning.
But time and again, Effron and his team have been on the right side of a deal — and that has allowed them to salvage broken bids and also latch on to key relationships giving Centerview access to repeated business that boosted its bottom line.
Business Insider takes a look back over Centerview's brief history as it continues its assault on Wall Street's league tables, which track banks' rank in M&A by volume. Through Dealogic data, we track its biggest deals and mandates over the last few years:
Nestlé's baby-food buy from Pfizer was a big deal for Centerview
Sector: Food & beverage
Deal: Pfizer dealt its baby-food business to Nestlé in 2012
Centerview was on a team of banks that advised Pfizer on its $11.9 billion sale of its baby-food business to Nestlé in 2012. For Centerview, 2015 represented a year where the boutique started elbowing its way into more healthcare M&A deals.
CVS Health expanded with an Omnicare deal earlier this year
Sector: Healthcare
Deal: CVS did a $12 billion deal to buy Omnicare
CVS took the help of two banks: Centerview and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The deal helps the brick-and-mortar pharmacy business expand its line of business into assisted-living companies and other healthcare facilities.
Google's Motorola Mobility deal was good for Centerview
Sector: Telecom
Deal: Google spent more than $12 billion on Motorola Mobility Holdings in 2011
A pair of savvy boutiques piled onto the Motorola side of the $12 billion Google-Motorola deal in 2011, and Qatalyst Partners and Centerview earned a bigger payday for themselves— as well as the seller. Centerview did scant tech deals over the past decade, as that industry has been besieged by other small boutiques.
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