BB IBD - Foreign country M&A

Hi,

I am an Indian student currently interning in a boutique IB.

I have a relative(CEO) who can connect me to a PE firm's Managing Partner.This PE partner is extremely well connected.He can connect to me to the country head of a BB investment bank(this country head was with the BB bank's M&A department in US for more than a decade before moving back to head India operations)

I have a few questions in this regard :

1) How effective will a referral from the country head of a BB IB(think GS/MS/JPM) be in securing an internship/ full time offer in its M&A department in one of the more mature markets like the US,UK or even HK, Singapore? (I want to work outside India because the no.of M&A deals happening in India is very very less) Is it possible at all to land a job in BB US/UK office from India directly out of undergraduation ?

2)Do you think I would be better off by trying to secure a job in the PE firm(it's a $2 billion fund) since this contact is more direct ?