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Question

Any chance there are active PF bankers here? Looking to connect and get some advice.

kingb · Accepted Answer

gigachad69
Thanks for the insight - really helpful!

Just wondering when you talk about name-brand - would this include lending focused banks? I've missed out on summer roles at some names you've mentioned so I'm curious as to whether I could build up experience at lenders (less competitive) and lateral to potentially P&U IB in the future.

Used to work in PF but it’s been a while so my perspective to be may be stale.

This will depend a lot on the region.

kingb · Answer

Im still in the infra space. Careers aren’t nearly as easy to rank as typical discussion on this website might suggest nor are career paths all that linear.

There are a lot of benefits to PF work that made the job a lot more rewarding and sustainable to me (beyond WLB which can still be bad if you’re stuck in a team with bad culture etc) but others hate it and find it boring and esoteric and can’t wait to get out.

jayjayss · Answer

PF Banker doing advisory in Aus.

Agree with Teller above, US does not see much PF they are much more capital markets focused (144a).  But there is a lot of PF in Europe relating to renewables, PPP and energy.  BNP is the strongest PF bank, Credit Agricole does a lot of PF too.  Then I'd say in declining order are SocGen, Natixis and ING.  Most other European banks I can think of would likely not be structuring bank or MLA.  A lot of UK / Nordic banks do LevFin for PE sponsors, which I think is a great starting point for landing in PE too.

In Asia/Oceania there is a l

rakpznefmlupfyomdm · Answer

I can tell you which banks are more advisory / structuring / syndication focused: the BBs + BNPP + Macquarie. Evercore, Lazard, and Rothschild have done some work in the space but not much. You're a generalist capital markets advisor there anyway and PF is 1% of what you would do.

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