I am in the UK and have internship offers form a low tier investment bank (not m&a) or a good private credit shop. Investment bank does returns, private credit does not. What would be better for grad recruiting into IB or buy side.
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How low tier IB are we talking about? Like tier 3? Tier 2?
Quite low, balance sheet bank, good in debt and lev fin
I presume you are referring to MUFG/Mizuho. You will be able to re-recruit for pretty much everywhere for FT with either of those 2 names if you’d like to move up.
Most banks prefer IB experience over buy-side unless the buy-side firm is elite like BX, Apollo, KKR etc
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