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Different at every bank. Sometimes M&A runs the model, sometimes the industry group, and sometimes it will even be the product group if the deal in question is heavily dependent on that (e.g. a high yield loan offering model may be run by LevFin).

 
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Banks with separate M&A teams: MS* JPM CS* UBS Barclays

Banks without separate M&A teams: GS LAZ/EVR/GHL/etc**

    • MS has a separate tech M&A group in addition to the M&A group, CS TMT does its own M&A ** - These places mostly do M&A, so for them to have a separate M&A team would make the coverage bankers somewhat superfluous.

The M&A team, in general, executes a transaction that has been brought in by the industry team. As such, they're quite important. In banks without a separate M&A team, the coverage group executes its own transactions - sees them through from start to finish.

People generally attach high value to M&A analysts because, while they have relatively shallow industry knowledge, they have deep knowledge of M&A dynamics and the ins and outs of M&A accounting and modeling, skills sought in PE positions post-banking.

 

Thanks DaCarez. Understand this.

Just wondering each deal generally only has 1 analyst/Asso/VP/D etc (not talking about a mega deal that needs many people), if you have 1 sector analyst on it, why would you even need a M&A analyst on the same deal? And as a sector coverage head, it doesn't make sense to let his juniors only do pitches or client meetings without getting deal experiences, and ask the M&A analyst to do the actual execution, so I somewhat don't know how this kind of project staffing works in different banks. Thanks for your insights.

 

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