Are there "chill" M&A banks in London?
Curious to hear as most of my intel is from absolutely horrendous sweatshops (i.e., MS), but are there any M&A advisory houses with decent pay, but rather chill/laid-back culture without any weekend work?
I know this is like finding a needle haystack but could you please evaluate a bit on what you gathered from your friends? I also don't mind not going to a BB and rather downmarket, just don't want to work weekends and this always on / anxious / stress type of environment.
The nature of M&A is you are on live execution, hence there will always be weekend work by definition
Pretty much the majority of non BB b/s banks are relatively decent wlb (of course there’s exceptions).
For example BNP, Mizuho, Santander, Scotia (heard comp is strong here) etc.
Some outliers such as RBC I’ve heard hours are rough.
'Majority' is wrong - BNP, Mizuho, Scotia all have better WLB but that's pretty much it. And that's because none of them are good at / offer M&A. Santander is sweaty (and even then not that strong)
Vast majority of MM bank is a sweatshop (Houlihan, RJ, HW, Baird, WB, DC Advisory, Jeff, Guggenheim, etc etc list goes on)
best chance at WLB is a non-M&A bank with non-US/UK roots
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