M&A: How many Deals and Pitches do you usually have?

How many M&A deals are you usually working on at one time?

1st year M&A analyst at a lmm firm, how many deals is “normal” to be staffed on? Is 3 a lot? Is it normal for ana analyst to not be on any? Our analysts are all on 1-3 deals right now

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