Boston Investment Banks

LeggoMyGekko:

Isn't BDO an accounting firm?

but their "investment banking" arm is called Trenwith securties (or something along those lines).

primarily a PIPE player, from my experience.

You know what capitalism is? Getting fucked.

Network with people and find out!

bump

are you serious with the intra-day bump bro.

Jefferies, Blackstone, Barclays, Harris Williams, Piper Jaffray

to name a few

Add Oppenheimer, Cannacord Genuity, CW Downer, TM Capital, Consensus Advisors to the list. The firms section on WSO will have a ton as well.

I believe Blackstone runs their technology group out of Boston

BBH is research in Boston, I thought? Lazard office is teeny tiny, 20 people tops.

Thanks everyone!

Isn't Leerink from Boston?

Anybody know anything about C.W. downer? Dealflow, bonus, comp, culture, etc? Didnt really find much on the web or here. Thanks.

Most firms don't actively recruit for fall internships which means you have to take the initiative. Compile a list of the banks in your area and start calling them up. Your biggest concern at the moment should not be which one is the 'best' bank, but which one you can get an internship with.

Blackstone M&A has taken part-time interns before in Boston.

Check out Versailles Group, AGC Partners, and Consilium Partners (Wellesley). There likely won't be a formal process and I wouldn't expect to be paid much (if anything) but I'm pretty sure all three have taken on part time interns. Usually Bentley or Babson kids from what I've seen.

Thanks for all the help! Also, is it best to email a recruiter in HR, Analyst/Associate or MD? Calling or emailing best?

try BMO

http://www.streetofwalls.com/articles/investment-banking/learn-the-basi…

Boston is pretty big for PE and stuff. Go to this link and look for Boston, it will tell you all the firms in the city

http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/regional-boutiques?page=1

I think Chicago comes after NYC for finance

Buttercup you are the most useless girl I've seen on here, with your countless posts about Nico holdings and AXA Advisors, its quite obvious you live in Chicago, I get it. (http://www.nicoholdings.com). //www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/nico-holdings-llc //www.wallstreetoasis.com/forums/axa-advisors-worth-it

I couldn't even post in the AXA advisors thread because of how utterly worthless that firm is. Go to NYC if you ever want to do finance, though I doubt it'd help either you or the OP much considering you are both lazy women with no real skillsets. Chicago is horrible for everything except FOREX trading and unlike you, most people on this site have greater aspirations than being a "trader's assistant" at a 3rd tier shop like nico.

1styear is cracking me up tonight haha.

Thank you, and though you are not at a BB, I value your hard work and intelligence on these boards.

All jokes aside, I know two girl's who do "finance" in bean town & both suck more cock than Andy Dick on a three day ecstasy binge; and one got shipped to another office because her boss overheard her telling her male co worker that she wanted him to pound her out in the bathroom before lunch. Thats a true story.

1styearbanker, it's sad how you're out here to demoralize people, more so women just cuz they probably don't have or didn't get the best opportunities as you did. I'll even refrain from commenting on half the things you said simply because it'd be a waste of my time to tell you what skillsets I have or what my career aspirations are. It's pretty pathetic how you waste your time telling people they're good for nothing when I have my doubts on how capable you really are. Sexist retards like you really shouldn't have a place on this forum where people come to seek genuine advice than get meaningless insults. And FYI, I live in NYC.

I'm actually a motivational speaker. First one's on me babe.

I'd rather not. I feel bad for your audience. Learn some respect first, think about motivating people later.

1styearbanker

you seem to be a bit of a pretentious snot.

like buttercup, i've heard many people say that chicago is second after nyc for IB.

i don't see why you are so anti-chicago, it's a beautiful city with a significantly lower tax burden and cost of living than nyc. not to mention the fact that when i get off the plane at laguardia, i'm convinced I got misdirected to a haitian refugee camp until i get my bearings straight.

Why would you apply to crappy 3rd tier firms in chicago, there's plenty of 3rd tier crappy firms in NYC.

Also, Chicago is forex trading and prop trading decent only, anyone who works and has a job knows this. Banking centers are concentrated in NYC, San Francisco, Houston for gas/energy/nats, and Charlotte.

The city itself is a shithole, as is Boston. Both are festering toilets that anyone in IBD should avoid. And as enjoyable as it is making fun of monumental failures like buttercup that don't get any of my jokes, I believe I'm done with this particular thread.

To above idiot: Yes, my schtick is to be a pretentious snot, thank you for pointing that out. By the way, maybe there is a reason you fly la guardia.

1styearBanker:

Why would you apply to crappy 3rd tier firms in chicago, there's plenty of 3rd tier crappy firms in NYC.

Also, Chicago is forex trading and prop trading decent only, anyone who works and has a job knows this. Banking centers are concentrated in NYC, San Francisco, Houston for gas/energy/nats, and Charlotte.

The city itself is a shithole, as is Boston. Both are festering toilets that anyone in IBD should avoid. And as enjoyable as it is making fun of monumental failures like buttercup that don't get any of my jokes, I believe I'm done with this particular thread.

To above idiot: Yes, my schtick is to be a pretentious snot, thank you for pointing that out. By the way, maybe there is a reason you fly la guardia.

Henry Paulson (and many other notable bankers) would have something to say to you about banking in Chicago.

Btw, your flamboyant snottiness is only matched by the Sex in the City commercials that interrupt my Seinfeld reruns on TBS.

Fly laguardia as opposed to having your personal helipad 1styearbanker? how much more shallow do you get anyway? As far as jokes go, you've only made one on this thread and a pretty lame one at that. I think we've got better people on this forum to take advice from than getting lashed out by a pretentious incapable loser like you.

1YB -- hilarious. Keep up the good work.

I'm located in Boston. Pretty huge difference when it comes to work-life balance, but the experience is no where near the same as it was (or could be) in NYC (or other finance hubs, like SF -- not Charlotte, 1YB only mentioned Charlotte because he works at BofA and wants to feel like his bank's HQ is actually important).

As a city, Boston is phenomenal. Everything is reasonably close, and the scene at most bars is great. Not quite as good-looking as NYC, but what it lacks in looks it makes up for in straight booze....iness (?). Not sure that makes sense, but Boston is extremely enjoyable when it comes time for a Friday/Saturday/Tuesday night on the town.

westfald.... Where do these girls work and where may I get in touch with them? Sound like my type of women (or at least I can hook my roommate up with them).

fembot -- no Wall Street here. Most banks are going to be pretty spread out. International Place (on High and Oliver Streets) house a few offices of the BBs and some MM banks, but there are a lot of banks mid-town in the Copley Square/Prudential area.

Honestly, it really depends on which bank you're going to. If it's a Harris Williams, you're fine -- and if the bank is HQ'd in Boston, which some MM/boutiques are, you'll be fine. But if it's a BB or a satellite office, the experience can be less than spectacular. Rarely will you get a situation where you work 60-70 hours a week and only work on live deals (that's my life, but I don't know many other bankers in Boston who share the same luck).

When are you coming and where are you looking?

lol at first year. if you fly into jfk you have to deal with driving through the length of that third world country called queens. please don't tell me you fly into newark- that is just too declasse for a man of 3.5 gpa prestige.

anyways, i doubt you have the balls to perform your so called shtick at the office or even off-line. enjoy being an internet tough guy.

bah

I believe 1stYearBanker's firm has about 70-80 bankers in that "crappy" city. Surely top management is not taking him seriously.

Wow at the responses, but I am mostly concerned with boston, not chicago. jimbrowning, I am looking at boutiques focusing on restructuring in Boston, and I'm coming next month to visit some family. However I'm open to any IBD position.

PM me if you're looking for more info.

"I'm located in Boston. Pretty huge difference when it comes to work-life balance, but the experience is no where near the same as it was (or could be) in NYC (or other finance hubs, like SF -- not Charlotte, 1YB only mentioned Charlotte because he works at BofA and wants to feel like his bank's HQ is actually important). "

Fine, I'll take off Charlotte. However, NYC and SF are the only banking hubs in my eyes, one for each side of the coast. There's no way chicago or boston even apply.

you do know that while san francisco is definitely important, chicago is the second most important financial center in the united states, right?

what about houston for energy? do they count in your eyes, or does the fact that the banks there are full of those ratty UT-Austin state school kids make you throw up in your mouth?

Jeff Chiang would definitely refer to himself as all omnipotent, since only a UT-Austin state schooler could stoop to THAT level of utter redundancy.

he would probably say something like, "irregardless of where i went to school, I am all omnipotent, watch me turn white rice into fried rice"

"you do know that while san francisco is definitely important, chicago is the second most important financial center in the united states, right? what about houston for energy? do they count in your eyes, or does the fact that the banks there are full of those ratty UT-Austin state school kids make you throw up in your mouth?"

Like I said many times, chicago is fine for FOREX and prop trading. Not really for banking. Houston's a piece of crap, so no they do not count in my eyes considering energy is sort of for losers.

why is energy for losers again?

my personal hero is jeffrey skilling, so i take offense to your statement.

I mean no offense. Energy and FIG are known to pidgeonhole. They aren't losers per se but are pidgeons. How's that?

i just want to be able to manipulate energy prices in godless california one day. does houston IB provide that kind of exit opportunity?

Chicago? Boston?

IQ and wealth resides in New York.

Only plebes who are content with their meager existence would ever consider those laughable wastelands.

M6V10: NYC's IQ has been diluted by the throngs of immigrant street peddlers lurking about the 6th ave corridor from the Empire State Bldg to Times Square.

Check out AGC Partners. They're a TMT focused boutique based in Boston. They don't have the greatest rep but I'm almost positive they offer off-cycle internships.

If you don't mind boutique work, there are quite a few and most do offer off cycle internships (might be unpaid though).

Not sure if it'll help but I know that boutique banks don't start interviewing until April here in St. Louis.