Aerospace & Defense M&A?
Wondering if anyone on this site works in aerospace & defense M&A and if you could speak to the kinds of things you pay attention to as a part of coverage. Can you define what are some headline news events you care about versus what’s not as much important?
I’m curious if the IB group has an international affairs component where a critical part about your coverage is staying up to date on global news. It’s something I’m interested in if it exists.
My logic is if you’re in TMT/C&R/PF you’re very much inclined to know what’s going on in those specific sectors not as a side hobby but bc it’s part of your job.
Industrial groups cover aerospace and defense and from what I saw this summer, the MDs kept up with international news, especially Israel. Countries that has a big A&D component, china russia etc
I read somewhere on this site that Oil and Gas IB tends to be very model heavy and that if you like modeling then that’s a good spot despite it also being dry. Does industrials have a similar characteristic that sets it apart from other IB groups?
O&G IB is model heavy because to an extent you can predict how much oil you’ll dig out the ground, over what timeframe, at what rate etc etc. many factors influencing each of these
Anyone know the strongest banks in the space? very interesting area
JPM/Gs
Do you know which offices these/other top groups are based out of?
Used to work at a dedicated Aerospace, Defense & Government group in IB (Jefferies, Macquarie, Baird, HL, and WB all have them with dedicated junior staff if you’re interested). For Defense and GovCon, we would largely pay attention to specific budgetary trends rather than big international headlines, which tend to be a bit dramatized in their actual $ commercial impact. If you’re interested in digging further, I‘d encourage you to explore around Google for federal defense budgetary trends, and maybe read the quarterly presentations of the big primes (Lockheed, Raytheon, GD, Northrop) and services (CACI, Leidos, Booz Allen, SAIC) cos to get a better sense of what impacts the revenue / contracting landscape that moves the needle each year.
How difficult is it to lateral into a group like this? Is it similar to O&G modeling like how the user mentioned above. Do the Govt. Contracts involve RFP/RFQs?
Not that hard if they have an opening and you demonstrate interest. Modeling is nothing like O&G, it’s generally very similar to any commercial business with long-term contracts (ie, building a contract waterfall for revenue). Yes, most federal contracts are procured through RFP but not sure why that is relevant here? That is more an issue for the actual businesses to deal with as generally bankers are only prepping them for sale….
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