Nomura CFS or Sector Teams EMEA

Recently did the Spring Week Programme for Nomura and have the option to interview for SA2021 (London) for either the CFS team or Sector team.

How should I go on deciding between CFS or Sector teams? and which CFS/sector team is the strongest at Nomura.

Edit: My personal preference is to be in a diverse team, well rounded individual team, good deal flow. Planning to stay in banking for long time.

Thank you in advance.

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Client Financing & Solutions

Nomura’s CFS division specialise in providing financing advisory services to clients through several different product streams:

Acquisition & Leveraged Finance – provides debt financing for high profile private equity and corporate clients across a wide range of industries and geographies Debt Capital Markets – Bridging Investment Banking with Global Markets, the DCM team connects borrowers with investors by providing advice to both regular and new debt issuers on structuring and placing fixed income transactions in the international bond markets Debt Capital Markets Syndicate – Private side trading desk which works in close collaboration with DCM and Global Markets in the issuance of bonds Equity Solutions – Innovative equity-related strategies for a wide range of clients, sectors and geographies. The Team designs and executes bespoke transactions in the context of stake acquisitions, financing against equity positions, stock disposals, as well as solutions to optimise hedging and M&A situations Strategic Risk Solutions – Offers a broad range of solutions to financial sponsors and corporates to manage their exposure to financial risks through the use of derivatives and bespoke solutions. Providing creative and complex debt financing solutions taking principal positions across the debt capital structure

Sector Teams

Nomura’s sector teams identify and analyse deal opportunities and manage client relationships across sectors and key geographies teams to include the following:

Consumer – Provides advisory and financing services to a wide range of consumer facing businesses. Established base of both global mega-caps and smaller but ambitious corporate clients Equity Advisory – Nomura is the only global investment bank providing independent equity advisory services. We provide clients with advisory and support in executing equity-related transactions including IPO’s, Rights Issues, Accelerated Bookbuildings, Private Placements and Equity-Linked Products Financial Institutions Group – Focus on coverage and execution for a wide range of clients across the UK, France/Benelux, Iberia, Italy, and Greece. Our clients span traditional FIG institutions like banks and insurers, and wealth/asset managers, trust/corporate services and other diversified financials Financial Sponsors – Focusing on covering Financial Sponsor and Alternative Investment clients, including a broad range of Private Equity funds, Sovereign Wealth funds and Pension funds Healthcare – Growing team with in depth industry expertise built through advising both Corporate and Financial Sponsor clients on acquisitions shaping the industry. In addition to M&A, the team has a track record of providing Leveraged Finance and Risk Solutions within a broad range of subsectors, including specialty pharma, biotechnology, medical technology, animal health and healthcare services Industrials – Provides advisory and financing services to clients across a wide range of industrial sectors including diversified industrials, automotive, paper and packaging, transport and logistics, and business services M&A – Focusing on the origination and execution of domestic EMEA and cross-border transactions, with exposure to all industry and product teams Natural Resources – A cornerstone team in the EMEA IBD providing advisory and financing solutions across four sub-verticals including Power & Utilities, Infrastructure, Chemicals and Oil & Gas. A well-established franchise highly regarded in the industry with a track record of originating and executing high profile transactions Nordic – Focuses on providing advisory services to, and maintaining relationships with, key Nordic corporates, financial sponsors and various Government ministries. In addition, the Nordic team works closely with Nomura’s industry and products teams on leverage finance and Risk Management Solutions Telecoms, Media & Technology – Provides advisory and financing services to Corporate and Financial Sponsor clients across a wide range sub verticals within the Telecom, Media and Technology industries UK – Provides UK-focused clients with holistic corporate finance advice, across all key sectors and investment banking products

 

Hey, how did you decide in the end? 

I find it difficult to choose while applying via the normal SA way without the spring week before. You have to choose between CFS and sector teams before submitting your application. 
LevFin would be my preferred choice but except for LevFin all other groups in CFS don't suit my goals. On the other hand most of the sector teams are satisfactory. 

Do you or someone else know when Nomura decides to put one in which group? After training week or when obtaining that SA offer? 

Thanks in advance

 

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