*ADVICE NEEDED* - Grad IBD @ BNP Paribas (LONDON)

I have an offer for their grad scheme

Was wondering if anyone has any insight into best desks / products relating to IBD in london ....

I have to choose 3 from the following as part of 3 x 6 month rotations (ie 18 month Grad programme in total): - M&A - DCM - Lev Fin - Coverage - Corporate Broking - ECM

I was going for Lev Fin, DCM and then M&A (in that order) Would greatly appreciate any thoughts from anyone with better exp. or knowledge.

Thanks (Y)

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from my research, bnpp mostly does debt stuff. so by doing coverage, i will be doing mostly debt stuff in a specific coverage area. So might as well do debt stuff across a range of industries and areas. -> I am a bit clueless on what bnp is actually good at in london so any advice would be great :)

But, happy to be proven wrong if bnpp does well across say M&A for example (they did 84 deals across 2018 - placing it higher in ranking than ubs. however, most of the ubs deals were of higher value) pretty sure M&A is also ran out of paris and not london.

 

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