Doubts regarding IB Industry groups

 I was researching about Investment Banking and came across way too many terms and understood some of them ig. So I kinda understood what product groups are they only work on specific types of deals like M&A and restructuring but I am quite confused about "Industry Groups". Here are my questions

1) What do Industry groups actually do? do they work on every type of deal in a specific industry?

2) What are the different Industry groups? I found a few online like TMT and Healthcare and would like to know the rest as well

3) Does being a part of specific Industry groups affect your exit-opps to PE and HFs? 

And yea sorry for sounding dumb I just finished high school and I don't have anyone in finance so any replies would be really helpful. Thank you

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1,2) Industry groups within IBD typically cover M&A advisory under a specific industry. Depending on where you work, industry groups will also cover ECM and DCM (esp at BBs) whereas EBs will focus on M&A and sometimes restructuring. Occasionally you also advise on other types of deals ex. Activism. Common industry groups would include industrials, healthcare, consumer, tmt, real estate, infra, energy/natural resources etc. 3) really depends, for instance certain PE roles like REPE would require real estate experience. But I believe given that you are first/second year analyst when you exit, you don’t have time to specialize yet. What could potentially make an impact is being at a group that’s top of the street or of your firm (ex GS TMT). Hope this helps.

 

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