FT Partners London
Hey Guys,
any views on the London office of FT Partners? Especially exit into Growth Equity / PE firms?
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Not a good place to be. Know a couple peeps who interned there this past summer and all were getting worked hard. A lot of the work they did was administrative like keeping track of buyer communications or making decks to update the team and client on process.
Are you talking the London office? I heard that London ist quite different to SF
London is the most brutal of all the offices in terms of the hours but the people who work there are pretty nice actually. Better culture. the Revolut deal was ran out of London
Do you have any further information on the Ldn Office?
What are typical hours? What's the culture like?
Wanted to apply but not really sure if I can handle the hours...
Aside from the horrid culture which has been discussed ad nauseum on this forum, seems like they are definitely a firm that is making splashes recently. They recently advised Assurance on its sale to Prudential for $3.5bn. When it comes to fintech, I'd place them a tier below JP, GS, and MS.
Not sure what you're talking about. Per the below FTP doesn't even make it to the top 10 by deal size, reason being they do a ton of small cap raises and land a big deal only once in a blue moon.
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Actually I'm interested as well. Any information on reputation/exit opps?
And would you choose William Blair or FT Partners?
Depends on your interests - if you know you want to do fintech, go FT. If you want to start off on a broader platform with better exits to buyout shops, choose Blair
FT focuses more on capital raises than any other type of transaction so buyout shops would be harder to get. GE is a lot more feasible. Also, FT does some non-FinTech deals as well so you won't be solely doing FinTech deals but broader Tech deals here and there as well.
London office started two years ago and is growing rapidly. It has the highest deal flow of any office and the firm's push to do well from the senior team contributes to a negative culture at the analyst level and very long hours.
At the same time, you will learn a lot and get to work on live deals almost all the time.
Given how new they are, the exit opps are not that great tbh due to the drastic difference in how banking and banks are perceived outside of the US.
Do you think (L)MM PE/Growth Equity will be possible? I don't care about any other exits beside them and maybe VC.
GE/VC should be solid at decent shops. Classic buyout shops may be harder except at shops that have a focus on fintech ie smaller funds similar to Warburg pincus
Interested in this as well. Would love to hear additional input. Especially regarding full-time analysts/associate experience.
bump any recent news on them?
Bump
London works very long hours but is growing rapidly, tons of deal flow. FT Partners is pretty well known among growth/venture shops across the street (that do fintech, which is a majority). Don't expect traditional buyout
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