Legal Division at BBs

A friend of a friend is an incoming summer legal analyst at JPM/GS/MS (but I don't know him well enough to ask questions haha), so I am intrigued to learn about work within the Investment Banking Legal divisions of BBs.

Are there any WSO'ers out here with such experience that they're willing to share?

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There's not really an investment banking legal divison. It's a corporate legal division, you might work with IB group (mostly on revising redlines / contracts for a client hiring the bank as their advisor, or fee proposal documents) but that's about it.

You aren't doing any legal work on deals themselves - there are third party lawyers for that, M&A law is a whole thing - this job is very much CYA internal work

 

got it, GS might do it differently, my legal group works on a ton of different groups

It's still the same work I described above. It's not "investment banking" type work, it is just basic contract work for a handful of types of client contracts. It's absolutely a great name for the resume if you are pre-law school and want to do financial law or M&A law down the road, but I think a long term career in this group would be super boring

 
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