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This is a traditional debt advisory group. Corporates will use them if the management team can’t otherwise figure out how to raise debt capital and sponsors will use them if the sponsor themselves is strange (fundless, no / short track record, etc) or the sponsors deal is a storied credit or weird industry. They’re mostly placing paper with your typical private credit firms. The group was recently expanded to include equity private placements so therefore not the same as public markets ECM. Relatively speaking the group is newer and not as big or active as say Lincoln’s debt advisory group, but they have a stable deal flow. The group head is pretty chill - she sits in New York whereas most of the team is in Chicago I think. So no facetime for her, not that she’d want it anyways. They’ll typically work with the industry groups to put together materials but have heavy input on positioning for credit investors. You’ll model but it’ll be fairly simple LBO / cash flow modeling.