Internship: Boutique M&A vs. BB Operations?
I'm a second year finance major in a 3-year direct honors program. If I have to choose between a CorpFin/M&A internship in a boutique and an Ops in a BB, which should I pick, in terms of experience to gain, full-time opportunities?
Corpfin/m&a is my definite preference where the department is concerned.
This summer is potentially be my last chance to get internship experience, which I haven't had yet. I still would very much like to join a BB when I graduate.
Thank you.
Do boutique m&a. As long as you choose carefully and get the right experience, it will be very easy for you to leverage the boutique summer to a full time bulge bracket offer in the same position. As for bb ops, it will probably be harder for you to transfer from away from ops internally, let alone use that to get into ibd at another bulge. You may also be sitting at a relative disadvantage at this point, since you are a second year (and probably no or less experience last summer) and will therefore land a job at a worse bb anyway, even in ops, so you'd be better off going to boutique.
Front office is always the way to go. Working in a BB in back office will not enable you to move in front office; in fact it’s extremely rare for corporate finance. Forget about prestige and league tables it’s about what you want to do.
Not saying that back office is bad. Just if you want to work in corporate finance then take the boutique offer.
Boutique over BB back office
Wouldn't a BB look better on the CV? Especially on the recruiters' side.
Not if it's Operations. Choose boutique corp fin hands down.
What about if its BB Capital Markets? (Not sure what back office entails) Would boutique m&a still be better (assuming you want to do m&a)
Boutique M&A can mean anything.
Make sure the shop is reputable at the bare minimum.
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