Intern

At first there was a pre telephone screening interview with an associate of the firm. This interview included general motivation towards M&A and the firm, as well as a brain teaser revolving around a thought provoking question that I had to collect my thoughts about in around 10 minutes and then present them to my interviewer.

The second interviews were conducted via zoom and consisted of two 1 on 1, one hour long conversations with two further associates. The first interview consisted of me having to introduce myself and later explaining the M&A process, explaining a recent M&A deal that I had heard of and producing a one pager company profile.

The second of the two interviews consisted of several technical questions surrounding valuation and also the differences between sell-side and buy-side banking. Technical questions had a strong focus on multiples, while the banking questions primarily referred to how an investment bank operates, how it generates revenue and the different meanings of buy- and sell-side deals for the bank.