Most Prestigious Banks

999 banking professionals were surveyed in order to rank the top 50 firms in commercial and investment banking. Here are the top 25:

1 Goldman Sachs & Company

2 The Blackstone Group

3 Morgan Stanley

4 Lehman Brothers

5 JPMorgan Investment Bank

6 Merrill Lynch

7 Citi Markets & Banking

8 Lazard

9 Credit Suisse Investment Banking Division

10 UBS Investment Bank

11 JPMorgan Chase - Commercial Bank

12 Deutsche Bank

13 Bear Stearns & Co.

14 Citigroup Inc. (Citi)

15 Bank of America

16 Greenhill & Co.

17 Barclays Capital

18 Wachovia Corporation

19 Rothschild

20 HSBC

21 Houlihan Lokey

22 Jefferies

23 Perella Weinberg Partners

24 Wells Fargo

25 Royal Bank of Scotland