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This BofA presentation on the Raiders’ stadium in Clark County has many key points, as does this one for the Tennessee Titans’ stadium. Examples Valuations, Fairness Opinions, and Bank Presentations Finding these presentations and Fairness Opinions was quite difficult because most sports M&A deals involve non-public assets.
Were they all from bulgebrackets or small regional firms? Conversations Lead To Opportunities…With An Opportunistic Recruiter As I presented numerous times in the blogs over the months, my approach is clearly opportunistic. Was there a trend to the candidates that I was now talking to?
Equity research recruiting tends to be less structured, though the bulgebracket banks and elite boutiques still run traditional processes that start over a year before summer internships. bulgebracket research team to startup PE firm). consolidation accounting , lease accounting , etc.).
bulge-bracket banks , such as JPM, GS, MS, and Citi, always rank well in the league tables. The other bulgebrackets (BofA, Barclays, UBS, and DB) tend to rank lower, but this varies each year. Investment Banking in Dubai: The Top Banks The usual U.S. are much less active.
based bulgebrackets (GS, MS, JPM, Citi, and BofA) are the strongest international banks, and Avendus, Kotak, JM Financial, ICICI, and Axis are the strongest domestic firms. Among the bulgebrackets, the U.S.-based I found contradictory information when researching this point, but I’ll present my rough estimates below.
This results in unnecessary presentation turns, re-run analyses for no apparent reason, and endless back-and-forth over minutiae in the Fairness Opinion and other documents. In 2021, after the infamous “Goldman Sachs” presentation went viral , banks raised base salaries and changed their staffing and work-from-home policies.
Admittedly, not all banks did this, and many bulgebracket firms will start in the normal time frame of January – March. So, your candidacy is more about presentation, consistency, and ensuring you have a good enough background to be competitive. bulgebrackets (well, except for RBC).
But the cherry on top came from the infamous “105-hour workweek” leaked presentation from a group of Goldman Sachs Analysts. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs paid quite well, with many Associates in the $400K – $500K total compensation range, and various other bulgebracket and middle market firms followed suit. at some smaller firms.
All the bulgebracket banks in the U.K. Therefore, most of your success depends on how well you network and how you perform in the final interview(s) or presentation. This one varies by bank, but you’ll usually have to prove yourself with an end-of-week interview or case presentation. Which Banks Offer Spring Weeks?
For a good example, look at this BofA presentation to Green Plains , which was structured as an MLP at the time and treated like a pipeline company in oil & gas. If you look at the presentations and valuations below, you will still see standard valuation multiples like TEV / Revenue, TEV / EBITDA, and P / E.
In a good industry group, you might build a 3-statement model for a client based on a detailed review of its business, and you would use the output in the CIM and management presentation to market the company. By contrast, you’ll do far more PowerPoint work in ECM / DCM, and the “modeling” work could more accurately be called “data gathering.”
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Some of the aspiring players are present in the Prime Brokerage Survey, with outperforming scores set by players including Pershing, CIBC Mellon, Marex, Cantor and TD Securities. This is an ongoing pattern that we suspect will continue for some time.”
It won’t replace Analysts or Associates because it can’t create entire presentations with all the correct details. But it speeds up the process by generating slide templates based on your queries, presentation data, and free examples on the sec.gov site.
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