Mergers & Inquisitions

[...] There’s a lot of debate around the “best” place to start your career: Investment banking? Private equity? Corporate finance? Equity research? But if you go the corporate finance [...]

[...] above wrong by moving from valuation advisory (similar to what you do at the Big 4) into investment banking, in the middle of the year and without previous IB experience. Oh, and he was from a non- [...]

[...] start out in commercial banking, get bored within 6 months, and then network your way into investment banking at a top bank – like our interviewee today did: Whither Commercial Banking? Q: You [...]

[...] So you’re interested in working in finance, but you’re not sure about investment banking or sales & trading… While the money and prestige sound amazing, the hours and [...]

[...] Hope. The foundation of venture capital. And in some regions, private equity is more like venture capital: raise money from other people, put it into a bunch of companies [...]

[...] to grow up in China, work at a local Chinese investment bank there, and then continue on into private equity, also at an actual local firm. That’s exactly what our interviewee today will explain [...]

[...] ton of confusion over what you actually do in Project Finance, how it’s different from private equity / Leveraged Finance / Debt Capital Markets / Public Finance, and what the advancement [...]

[...] to help me out. After that boutique IB internship, I started getting a lot more interested in private equity and in going there directly instead of joining a bank full-time. A lot of funds were just [...]

[...] In 2013, that reached 30% and boutiques earned more in M&A advisory fees than the top 4 bulge bracket banks combined ($5.73 billion vs. $5 billion). You see this trend even in emerging markets: in [...]

[...] attractive. Our reader today went through this process himself, won multiple offers at both bulge bracket banks and boutique trading firms, and ultimately chose to join a boutique firm that focuses on [...]

[...] a year and a half) to gain more work experience first. I applied to dozens of boutique and bulge bracket banks here, completed a 6-month off-cycle internship at a smaller bank, and then moved into my [...]

[...] . Here’s how he did it, and what private banking is like at family offices vs. bulge bracket banks: Breaking In: How to Set a Stop Loss in Your Personal Life Q: Your story. Let’s hear [...]

[...] out interested in law, then did marketing, then worked in product development, then did corporate finance, and you’re now in an MBA program looking to move into IB: Leave out the part about [...]

[...] that you’re interested in reaching one day: the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in the corporate finance team of a company, and the Managing Director (MD) at an investment bank. Chances are that [...]

[...] Financial Management Program at GE, but the criteria and the process are very similar for corporate finance graduate programs at other F500 companies. So if you’re interested in corporate finance at [...]

[...] interns are astonished by the discussion. They are transitioning from “school” corporate finance with endless discussions about corporate structure equilibrium and “optimal capital [...]

[...] co-op at a large bank and then leveraged that to win an equity research co-op and then a corporate banking co-op. Then, I won a full-time rotational role in the capital markets team at the same bank, [...]

[...] day-to-day, at least in my opinion. The following summer I interned in the international corporate banking department at Allied Irish Banks, and then interned at Credit Suisse in sell-side equity [...]

[...] still have to recruit with other groups/banks for full-time roles anyway. Q: I accepted a corporate banking offer at a large bank in the US, but then I just received an offer for investment banking at [...]

[...] the ladder in the PE hierarchy. As an example, I spoke with a guy who moved from 1 year in corporate banking, to an Analyst at one of the largest funds in the world, to a Vice President at a much [...]

[...] competitive to win internships at bulge bracket banks, private equity firms, and other finance firms, how could they possibly go through all that effort to hire you and then give you no real work [...]

[...] this legislation effectively increases healthcare costs for all companies, including banks and finance firms of all sizes. More money spent on health insurance that you don’t need = stagnant-to- [...]

[...] school, and so on. Just make sure you speak with real students there first to verify that finance firms actually recruit on-campus for front office roles… Responding to the Haters Q: This [...]

[...] school classes. You want exposure to case studies and practice exercises given by finance firms – otherwise, you may not develop the critical thinking that’s required in interviews [...]

[...] interviews before, but was there anything unique that you don’t see in other finance interviews? A: Not really – they’ll still ask about things like Equity Value vs. [...]

[...] a step in the process. This will require spinning the truth, but we’re talking about finance interviews here, not lie detector tests. Here’s a “made-over” version of the story [...]

[...] just get you elected President… …and it might also sink your chances in finance interviews if you’re not properly prepared. People like to claim that “interviews [...]

[...] in London. Then I joined Energy Company Y and have been working in their corporate finance team ever since. Your Future / Why You’re Here Today: I’m interviewing at [Bank Name] [...]

[...] differs in natural resources, especially at smaller companies. What an average day in the corporate finance team of a natural resources company is like. How JV and asset-level deals differ from [...]

[...] you’re interested in reaching one day: the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in the corporate finance team of a company, and the Managing Director (MD) at an investment bank. Chances are that you [...]

[...] York. And it ended with me leveraging my sales job into an investor relations role in the corporate finance team of a Fortune 500 company. I work directly with the VP of Investor Relations, and I get [...]