Nomura London Team Deal Flow

Nomura’s really been stepping up their IB hiring in London? What’s the deal flow like for different teams? Heard GII is excellent , but worried about the hours. What about TMS (TMT) / Healthcare /M&A  / Consumer & Equity Advisory? Would love any insight! 

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all teams shit except GII (which is mainly driven through legacy Greentech heads from their Zürich office) and one MD in consumer covering bottling

 

This is very wrong. London GII has sourced some key deals over the last years (Cellnex deals, Opdenergy, lightsource, etc). Tbh, Zurich focuses more of small/mid cap stuff with a focus on energy services.

 

Zenobe (KKR) was Zürich + all the other interesting greentech stuff is done from there… Digital Infra also strong in London, currently carrying the London greentech team with their towers / data center deals, otherwise would be struggling to achieve yearly fee targets

 
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Have couple of friends in their top teams

  • Greentech, Industrials & Infrastructure (GII): Arguably the best team in terms of exposure and exit. A boutique within the larger bank with 30+ large deals/year. Typical exit is UMM Infra fund or top BB/EB in Diversified Industries, Infra or Telecoms. Hours are significantly worse than other teams though.
  • Consumer: ex-Lehman Brothers MDs with deep industry connection (Coca Cola, Heineken) bringing £10bn+ deals. Good WLB overall (9am-10pm average)
  • M&A: Good all-around with stable dealflow and good WLB, with regular exits at top BB and MM PE
  • Healthcare, TMS: mostly pitching, but couples of recent good hires at senior levels, TBC
 

Friend who started there a few months ago (top team) told me hours are super chill overall, Greentech working more but not a sweatshop (~70h/week, not too much work on weekend). Heard dealflow is slow recently but they converted a lot of SA so they might be preparing for smth

If you're looking for a place to chill while earning your buck it's probably great but you might be missing on deal experience depending on the team

 

I work in the Greentech team. I’d say 70h is on the lower end. It also depends greatly on the sub vertical you’re working in. Digital infra people are easily pulling 100h+ a week. I have had 60h weeks but that was last year. Currently the team is very busy with people being on 3 deals on average at any one point. On the other hand, the Chemicals sub-vertical has had an v bad year. Team has reached budget this year. hopefully this will be reflected in our bonuses.

 

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