SA offers what to chose?

If your goal was to work in IBD someday either in M&A or Acquisiton Finance among these three non-IBD offers what would be the best?

1.) ECM at Opco. 2.) Structured Finance at BNP. 3.) GTS with Citi 4.) non-paid non-offers M&A internship at a no-name boutique

All these offers are in NYC except for the last one in DC and I believe I can get that one for the fall as well after the summer.

I'd appreciate any advice.

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DorianGrayI read somewhere on this forum that ECM was MO. It was all just confusing

You sure you got ECM? Sounds like you have no fucking clue what you are doing.

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Someone here is retarded. Either the OP or the Oppenheimer/BNP hiring managers.

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Guys give me a break, I read every article on M&I about IBD M&A and prepped for everything relating to M&A hoping I would get a shot at it.

There isn't a lot of talk about ECM on these forums and there wasn't a site that CLEARLY labeled each department as front office or back office (except for the most obvious ones like operations or acquisition finance etc that are easy) so I just wanted to make sure.

I obviously googled and read up on the corporate site about what they do in ECM and used the search on these forums. There was just a lot of contradicting information.

 
DorianGrayGuys give me a break, I read every article on M&I about IBD M&A and prepped for everything relating to M&A hoping I would get a shot at it.

There isn't a lot of talk about ECM on these forums and there wasn't a site that CLEARLY labeled each department as front office or back office (except for the most obvious ones like operations or acquisition finance etc that are easy) so I just wanted to make sure.

I obviously googled and read up on the corporate site about what they do in ECM and used the search on these forums. There was just a lot of contradicting information.

Damn you hardcore M&A. can u teach me accretion / dilution pls?

 
God of WineDude, are you the kid with the sketchy ass PWM resume? I think I remember having legit questions regarding your "experience" there... I'll ask HR to pull your resume tomorrow.

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God of WineDude, are you the kid with the sketchy ass PWM resume? I think I remember having legit questions regarding your "experience" there... I'll ask HR to pull your resume tomorrow. .

Yea it is, kid is fake as shit... check out his profile: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/dorian-key/28/544/145

He claims to have done leveraged finance at SBSCO... lol

A couple months back he claimed to be an intern at Blue Heron Capital, a small PE shop, then he took it off.

Kid's GPA is around a 3.0, last time I checked min GPA at most firms was 3.2/3.5

He claimed to be doing IB at Oppenheimer a while back but that also turned out to be a sham, he was apparently at the wealth management branch. smh

 

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