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It's going to be an uphill battle to get into an MFPE, and you can forget about SM HFs. MM HFs are doable though.
Have seen 1 person exit to MFPE tbf but he was an exceptional analyst
Isn't lazard a top place? How do you place into MF then?
Not in London.
Surely for Rx/distressed groups though? Or is HL/PJT the go-to for that in London?
As usual on this forum - plenty of comments from people who don’t know the lay of the land in London.
Off the top of my head from London (probably find more on LinkedIn)
MF: Bx, KKR, Apollo, CVC
HF: Citadel, Viking, P72
On the contrary; even Rothschild beats Lazard on this side of the pond. The examples you present are not representative of Lazard but of the people getting these exit opps - they're all connected and as long as they weren't working at some dogshit corporate finance house they'd have the same outcome.
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