Hello,
Recruiting week starts this Monday for me, and I'm a bit nervous about the upcoming interviews. I was wondering if you guys could fill me in on what recent IPOs or mergers would be good to talk about in an interview. Thanks in advance!
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Any, with which you are intimately familiar .
You need to follow business news relatively regularly to fare well in the interviews anyway. Firms know that candidates will pick up the WSJ a week before the interview. In my previous interviews, I got quizzed on deals that occured up to 5 years back (granted, they were major deals... but still...)
IPO Transactions are starting to pick up now that the year has restarted... Off the top of my head I can think of a few... Elixer Pharmacuticals, Maxum Petrolium (coming out soon), Riskmetrics, Cascal, IPC. As far as major M&A activity, I don't know which one of these is the next big one, but you could use VMW (VMWare) as an example of a very successful IPO launch.
just look up the dealbook blog (its on the wsj website) and scroll around, you'll find some
A huge one: Bank of America's acquisition of Countrywide Financial. I say big because it's very relevant to the whole subprime crisis, which has been big news for the past 6-7 months.
Now, if I didn't read into this as much as I should have (and therefore got the facts wrong), someone please correct me.
good idea JJC.
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