Credit Agricole

They are very bad at M&A in the US and not seriously trying to get better. However, they have a huge balance sheet, so your experience in DCM/LevFin/Capital Markets won't be that different, but you will lead fewer deals. They do a corporate and investment banking model in coverage (i.e. one relationship manager for everything from treasury to capital markets to structured finance to acquisition finance and even early M&A discussions), so you will do even more grunt work there than you would in more pure-form IB roles and probably really won't develop modeling skills. However, you will probably develop a broader albeit less valuable skillset than your pure IB counterparts. It's a french bank, so it's less intense (vacation you can actually use and enjoy from year one, no all-nighters, fewer weekends), but they pay meaningfully below market. It's a decent tradeoff if you are thinking about staying in banking long-term. Don't go there for exit-opps; seriously, don't neither the brand nor the watered-down depth of experience will make an exit straightforward. They also purposefully employ a lot of french people in every part of the organization, and if you want to be at very high levels in the firm it helps to be European and speak french.