-- ken moelis has decided now is the time to bring the firm public?having to suggest that yousitions will improve, are taking yourself public on the perception of enough doing, and that is the time one wants to do this type of thing. >> the last wave of ipo's was during the last merger boom, .reenhill, evercore >> 2006 for you. take us back to that time period . why did you decide to make that decision? expand awe wanted to lot faster than we had been, and in the intervening years we have. i think we thought and it has been proved correct, that the availability of a public currency would facilitate recruiting, and indeed it has. if you go to recruit someone quite senior people have large amounts of deferred compensation and equity in particular, and how do you address that? you have to eat come -- have to, in some form or another, replace that. you could use cash, but there are limits on that. number one, to help recruit, number 22 spread the firm -- number two two spread the firm's brand, and that has been our case, but it is not for everybody. everc

why is moelis and co more like google than bowman sacks?ever heard that comparison. >> the most interesting thing about his filing as he was to create a class of super voting stock so he alone gets to control the future of moelis and company. it will not be an independent board, just like google and facebook. >> are their demands for his shares like for google? >> well, m&a is on the upswing. volumes are at their highest since the third quarter 2008. historically when him and a begins to bubble up, you will see these boutique firms go public. look at the last round of ipos. goldman sachs went public in 1999. then we had greenhill in 2004, ever core in 2006, before the door slammed shut, fbr in 2007. we have not seen this since 2007. >> is this the icon effect? keeping the activists away? >> excellent question. unfortunately, i do not get to ask ken moelis because his lips are sealed until after the stock prices. i think it is a legitimate thesis. , what are yourer thoughts? >> to his point, it strikes me as a little opportunistic. he is tak

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