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Corporate Finance Jobs: Cozy Careers, But Bad “Plan B” Options

Mergers and Inquisitions

Corporate finance jobs at normal companies are bad … …if you’re using them to break into a deal-based field, such as investment banking , private equity , or venture capital , or as a “Plan B” if you interview around but do not get into one of these. In my view, corporate finance jobs are not ideal “stepping stone roles.”

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Project Finance vs. Corporate Finance: Careers, Recruiting, Financial Modeling, and More

Mergers and Inquisitions

With the craze over renewable energy and infrastructure over the past few years, we’ve received more and more questions about Project Finance vs. Corporate Finance. This article will focus on careers and recruiting , while the accompanying YouTube video will discuss the technical/modeling aspects in more detail.

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Capital Markets vs. Investment Banking: Deals, Careers, Recruiting, Exits, and Offer Decisions

Mergers and Inquisitions

Even though we’ve covered industry groups vs. product groups and teams such as M&A , ECM , DCM , and Leveraged Finance , we continue to get questions about capital markets vs. investment banking. The questions usually go like this: Are capital markets teams (ECM, DCM, and LevFin) “real” investment banking?

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Investment Banking in India: Please Avoid It and Try Again in Another Country

Mergers and Inquisitions

Firms like the State Bank of India (SBI Capital Markets), IIFL, Arpwood, Trust Group, AK Financial Services, HDFC, Edelweiss, Veda, and o3 Capital are also well-regarded but are closer to middle-market or “in-between-a-bank” firms.

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Successful Mini-Tenders

Deal Law Wire

After establishing its jurisdiction to intervene in the public interest, the majority of the Tribunal determined that the Mach Offer was abusive towards shareholders and capital markets more broadly. The author would like to thank Lila Yaacoub, Articling Student, for her significant contribution to this blog post.

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The essential guide to raising private equity

Growth Business

For institutional investors, therefore, private equity can offer exposure to fast-growing, high-potential, mid-sized private companies at a comparatively earlier stage of their growth trajectory than is available through the capital markets. This article was originally published by Michael Somerville on 14 September 2018.

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FOCUS Investment Banking Welcomes New Managing Director, Expanding Technology Services & Telecom Industry Groups

Focus Investment Banking

Washington, DC, (February 7, 2024) – FOCUS Investment Banking (“FOCUS”), a national middle market investment banking firm providing merger, acquisition, divestiture and corporate finance services, announced today that it has added a new managing director, Paul Carter, to its Technology Services and Telecom practices.