Deals as a first Year

Guys would be good to compare our respective dealflow and experience this year, to see what’s norm during covid

I’ll start:

- 2 IPOs

- 2 buy sides

- 2 sellsides

- 1 equity raise

transactions between $500-$20bn EV, $1bn on average, and mostly cross border

I have been on 2-4 deals nonstop and haven’t done any marketing for months due to dealflow. Not sure if I am good, but all my staffings have been direct (not from staffer)

6-7 deals in a year feels like a lot though  

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Can I ask what your role is on these deals? Because unless most of them are inactive / yet to kick off, there's no way you have say, the process workstream on sell-side #1, marketing materials on sell-side #2, model on the buy side and generally a meaningful contribution. Again maybe the deal teams are like 10 juniors each but otherwise you just can't deliver.

 

Started in august last year and almost all time have been consumed by one large sell side. Some marketing materials and a buy side sprint, but seriously had no capacity for anything else… I struggle to understand how one can manage 7 intense processes in one year, are the deals very short spanned?

Anyway, how did you like doing an IPO compared to a sell side?

 

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