Credit Suisse Investment Banking groups in London
How strong are these different groups at Credit Suisse in London and which ones will be best for breaking into PE and HF?
- Leveraged Finance and Financial Sponsors group
- Retail / Consumer
- Healthcare
- Energy
- Real Estate, Technoloy, Media & Telecoms
- Industrials
- M&A
I have used the search function, but it is difficult to find some sort of updated info. I have heard that their Healthcare team in London is small, but growing .
I heard Lev Fin & FS is one of the best groups.
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Anyone else with some insights into the strongest groups at Credit Suisse in London.
Obviously sponsors is excellent, TMT is strong and has some of the best training internal training of any group (share floor and COO with M&A and do a lot together), consumer is supposed to be good, so is the UKIB country team which has a decent number of corporate broking clients. Think industrials has lost a few big hitters. HC is very small in London
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How is the real estate group?
Credit Suisse London - Coverage groups (Originally Posted: 02/22/2014)
Need some info on CS London coverage groups. Good deal flow in EMEA? How about exits to buyside as an associate?
Thanks for sharing.
Also interested to know this from an analyst/SA perspective
Credit Suisse London (Originally Posted: 02/13/2008)
Hi,
I've done some searching around the forum and i cant find any good information on CS London IBD. I have a summer offer (haven't yet accepted) and was wondering if anyone knew the office and/or groups.
I know that CS has a very strong sponsors group in NY and LA, but does this also apply to the UK? Can anyone comment on the strength of their M&A/Energy/FIG groups? I have heard they are also strong in energy.
This forum has helped me alot already, Thanks for anything more you guys can tell me
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I think that i really want to do buyside after a few years in banking. Would it be worth it to go into sponsors or LevFin right now? Does anyone know how much dealflow those two groups are getting in Europe right now?
Sponsors in Europe are pretty much doing nothing in most banks bar the odd pitch. So its not a good area to go into now although CS Sponsors are legit. I would consider M&A execution or one of their industry teams which execute to be an area of interest. Energy, whilst very interesting might not be a good area to start if you want to go into PE in EU as not many funds look into that sector. I might be wrong on that last point and would like to hear the views of others.
On that last point, just talking from my personal experience, which might be completely wrong. A buddy of mine just got 10 MM to fund an energy company in Germany, the market is huge over there. A few PE funds are really interested in that area, it really just depends which area of Europe you are in. Again, this is IMHO, and I am just talking about one country in Europe here.
Remember, you will always be a salesman, no matter how fancy your title is. - My ex girlfriend
Best FICC divisions at Credit Suisse London (Originally Posted: 03/22/2012)
Hi, I was wondering if anyone know what CS are good at in FICC in London? I did my research but any new information would be really useful.
Cheers.
They have always been quite good in EM Rates and Mortgages.
Top groups at CS in London (Originally Posted: 01/04/2015)
Hi guys,
could any of you share your thoughts on CS's strongest groups in London? From what I have heard and read retail & consumer products and global energy are quiet strong.
Thanks!
I heard that leveraged finance and consumer are very good.
Thanks a lot!
Leverage Finance & Sponsors, one of the top department of CS for sure.
Denic, thanks for the info!
What about the TMT team in London, and the exit opp ?
Credit Suisse S&T London (Originally Posted: 09/21/2014)
Does anyone know what trading desks/areas are strong at Credit Suisse in London?
For example, I know Citi and DB are extremely well regarded for FX and MS is strong in equities. Is there anything that CS particularly stands out in?
Impressive market share in equities
Credit Suisse ECM in London (Originally Posted: 03/03/2011)
Hi guys,
I will be starting a summer internship at the ECM desk in June and was wondering if you could recommend any readings, books or websites that I could read up in order to ease the expected steep learning curve.
Thanks a lot
Unless you're part of the of the corporate derivative unit within ECM, I would not expect it to be too bad. Pure IBD( (M&A, restructuring and SOME coverage groups) have a steep learning curve, ECM does not. I generally like to refer to capital markets as "banking-lite"
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CS London (Originally Posted: 04/26/2007)
Hi, I was wondering whether anyone had any idea as to what the top groups at CS london were? I know in the US, CS has a very strong Sponsors group, is it the same in London or are things totally different? Thanks for the help!
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Can anyone answer his question? i cant find anything to answer this on the boards and i too am intrested in CS London
London Credit Suisse (Originally Posted: 03/25/2010)
Ok, CS has a good Financial Sponsor team in the US. Does anybody know about London? How are PE exit opps?
FS in London is generally at a major low point. There aren't any big players anymore. When the market picks up for PE, I think you'll see a shift in rankings. If you enjoy what you do and your good at it, then you have exit opps.
private equity in a slump over in london these days? could you elaborate a bit?
What are you talking about??
Recent Deals : KKR with Pets at Home, Apax with Marken, Deb Group by Charterhouse, Survitec by Warburg Pincus, CPA by Intermediate Capital... Rumours of Blackstone wanting to buy a British Bank...
CS is good in London and is working quite a lot with PE.. They just did Medica's IPO (BC Partners)
A lot of top banks such as GS and MS dont have financial sponsor teams (they cover Pe from industry teams) - I'm just trying to find out which bak would give me the best PE deals exposure and networking opportunities.
PE deals are actually picking up markedly and expect some more activity going forward as credit comes back
On the deals above, advisors were KKR >> Nomura Bridgepoint >> Rothschild / JP Morgan Barclays PE >> UBS Warburg Pincus >> Close Brothers Intermediate Capital >> Close Brothers
CS doesnt seem to be around much
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What about M&A @ CS? Are they a top group / have good PE exits?
im interested as well
Credit Suisse just advised KKR on the Inaer deal and Warburg on the Poundland deal...
Credit Suisse IBD Lodon (Originally Posted: 01/20/2017)
Monkeys,
Any colour on the state of groups and their culture at Credit Suisse in London?
Lev Fin/Fs is their top group with amazing exits. Industrial and TMT do well too.
Can vouch for this. Lev Fin is their best team.
Can you rank their teams? What about consumer, healthcare, UK, energy, fig etc
CS London IBD (Originally Posted: 02/07/2018)
Any thoughts on CS IBD?
Understand Lev Fin, Consumer & Retail, Industrials are really strong. What about ECM or DCM? Or anything else like culture of teams etc.
chirmurri, way too quiet in here. What about these resources:
Maybe one of our professional members will share their wisdom: Asad-Gul ktowles56-7 Londonista
You're welcome.
I have a few friends in CS London and the most well-known group is Leverage Finance and Financial Sponsors. Apparently, it is a factory of private equity analysts.
Second most popular group between Retail/Consumer and Energy.
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Does anyone have updated insights?
CS Sponsors is still very strong, although I tend to think the experience for a junior is not as interesting as being in an industry team where you will be doing LBOs as well as owning an operating model. I think PE funds are more and more looking for bankers with a double hat - i.e., that can run a model quickly and also analyse a company's BP. You will be doing both in an industry team, but not in a product team. That being said, the team has an amazing brandname and a network of alumni who went to big funds so you can't go wrong there.
TMT has had a good dealflow recently but a lot of it is telecoms and infra so not the best if you want to exit in a traditional PE fund. Also, work/life balance is really tough. The tech vertical has been really successful lately so a good bet if you are more interested in exiting to growth/VC funds.
FIG is notoriously the worst team - bad culture with seniors who really don't care about protecting their juniors. You will be doing a lot of painful pitches - avoid at all costs. Some unlucky interns ended up being placed in FIG even without ranking the team in their list.
M&A team is a sweet spot, doesn't work as hard as TMT/FIG, juniors have good deal exposure, seniors really go to bat for their team (heard most of the fast-tracked analysts were from M&A this year).
Great! Thank you so much
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