BMO Capital Markets vs Lincoln International (London)
Hi,
I'm due to complete my Master's in London next summer and have 2 offers on the table from BMO Capital Markets / Lincoln International for an M&A Analyst role in London.
Since there isn't much on here about the London offices of these 2 companies, I was wondering if people could provide info on work hours / lifestyle / prestige / exit opps etc. (the usual). My initial thoughts are as follows:
Lincoln - nice, smart people, but working on smaller size deals & less well known than in US / Chicago BMO - large international brand name, but again smaller operation in London & unsure of exit opps / quality of deals
Any info at all from the community would be greatly appreciated
As someone working in London i have never even heard of BMO, whilst I’ve come across Lincoln on some MM deals. On that basis i assume BMO don’t have a significant presence and would therefore opt for Lincoln.
Maybe check mergermarket or something in case i am off the mark.
Hey thanks for this - appreciate the info from someone working in the space. Unfortunately don't have access to mergermarket so unable to tell at this point
Lol how have you never heard of BMO? No it’s not on par with JP Morgan, but really?
BMO are decent in NatRes (especially M&M) in London but not much else. I think they're on the Centamin defence with BAML. You'll probably do a bit of everything in terms of product though (e.g. M&A, capital markets / levfin, broking etc.).
Lincoln will presumably be smaller, more EBITDA-driven (e.g. consumer, industrials etc.) M&A deals.
So ultimately the choice comes down to whether you want to do NatRes or not, imo.
Yeah, BMO is mostly mining
Thought I did post but it visibly didn’t. Anyways: don’t know anyone at BMO so wont comment on that. I know few people at Lincoln. They mostly do Sell-side advisory mandates in the LMM market (50-200mm EV). Some teams have solid dealflow (HC, TMT) - you would be usually closing 3/4 deals per year at least. People seemed happy both about pay and culture - very nice people quite laid back but very brit. Hours seem good too, people didn’t look crushed although busy on deals. Exits should be doable to EBs/other MM players after a year or so. Especially for firms doing sub 1Bn deals (Moelis, GHL, Jefferies, Blair, Bair). UK LMM PE is possible.
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