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

Mergers and Inquisitions

I will attempt to sort out the chaos here, but Ill start with the basic definitions and explain who should care about this process: Table Of Contents Off-Cycle Private Equity Recruiting Defined Off-Cycle Private Equity Recruiting, Part 1: Who Should Care?

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

Mergers and Inquisitions

Equity research recruiting tends to be less structured, though the bulge bracket banks and elite boutiques still run traditional processes that start over a year before summer internships. bulge bracket research team to startup PE firm).

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

Mergers and Inquisitions

We’ll do a full breakdown of the sector here, but as usual, we need to start with the definitions, trends, and drivers: Table Of Contents What is Sports Investment Banking? Outside the bulge brackets, many elite boutiques also advise on sports deals: PJT, Moelis, Evercore, and Rothschild (more so in Europe) are all examples.

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

Mergers and Inquisitions

Infrastructure Investment Banking Definition: In infrastructure investment banking, bankers advise companies in the data center, renewables, transportation, utilities, and energy storage/transportation markets on equity and debt issuances, asset deals, and mergers and acquisitions.

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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 name “bulge bracket” (BB) comes from the prospectus for an IPO or debt issuance, which lists all the banks underwriting the deal.

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Tick Tock Goes The Public Finance Firms Hiring Clock

H. Friedman Search

Firms that were hiring faster last year are definitely hiring much slower this year. Undercurrent Reasons To Slower Hiring Processes With Public Finance Firms I believe the reason for this slower pace is definitely a repercussion of the largest public finance firms exiting public finance itself at the beginning of the year.

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Can I Still Make A Move This Year?

H. Friedman Search

The larger bulge bracket firms and banks definitely take the longest time to get one started. This year is definitely different, so plan accordingly. It is still taking anywhere from thirty (at the quickest) to ninety days to even one hundred twenty days with some firms from the first interview to the start date.