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Off-Cycle Private Equity Recruiting: How to Prepare for the Slow Grind to the Finish Line

Mergers and Inquisitions

While on-cycle PE recruiting keeps moving up, to the point where you must attend a target elementary school, middle school, and high school to be competitive, off-cycle private equity recruiting remains a viable option for everyone else. Off-Cycle Private Equity Recruiting, Part 1: Who Should Care? Europe and the U.K.

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Trader of the Year Hedge Fund: Conversant Capital’s David Alfred

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I spent the first 20 years of my career at the global bulge bracket banks, first in investment banking and then on the institutional equity desks, in a cross-asset and special situations role. I was there through 2015, then Bank of America, before I joined Conversant Capital in early 2021. I believe so.

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Equity Research vs. Investment Banking: Careers, Compensation, Exits, and AI/Automation Risk

Mergers and Inquisitions

People are convinced that financial modeling in equity research is vastly different from investment banking and that research requires different or more specialized skills. Traditionally, banks gave away equity research reports for free to incentivize large clients to trade with the bank.

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Sports Investment Banking: How to Win the Super Bowl and the World Cup in the Same Year

Mergers and Inquisitions

This partially explains why sports investment banking has become a hot field, with JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs launching their own sports coverage groups. For a long time, sports teams and franchises were not worth that much, so banks rarely put their “A-Teams” on these deals. What is Sports Investment Banking?

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Infrastructure Investment Banking: Definitions, Deals, and a Dizzying Diversity of Verticals

Mergers and Inquisitions

The most difficult part of infrastructure investment banking is defining the exact verticals and deal types it covers. Like renewable energy IB , different banks classify their groups differently, so you could find yourself working on everything from a data center REIT M&A deal to an airport financing to an IPO for a solar developer.

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Bulge Bracket Banks: 2024 Edition

Mergers and Inquisitions

I never expected to revisit the topic of bulge bracket banks so quickly because the full list changes slowly, and we updated it a few years ago. What is a “Bulge Bracket Bank”? The larger banks play more important roles, acting as bookrunners or joint bookrunners, and earn higher fees.

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Top Private Equity Firms for Associate Opportunities

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When you first decide to enter the world of private equity, you will undoubtedly be more overwhelmed than you were when you entered investment banking recruiting. When it comes to investment banking, there are only so many investment banks that you can choose from. And with the firm recently closing a new $3.25