If you ONLY worked on live deals, with no pitching, how many hours per week would you work?

I was having this discussion with someone this evening and thought it was interesting. Hypothetical question: if, as an investment banking analyst in your current role, you had absolutely zero pitch responsibilities and only worked on active engagements, how many hours do you estimate you would work per week?

I estimated that this would be around 50 hours a week at least but someone else insisted it would be less than 40. Obviously it depends on the number and complexity of deals you are staffed on.

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Depends entirely on management. With a bad VP or MD, I've had live deals that take up 85 hours a week on their own. A great VP/MD combo who know what they want can get a pitch finished and polished in under 80 hours total across the whole team.

 
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