Looking to lateral, figure something like this might capture my interest of international affairs and finance. Ultimately responses would help me target those firms.
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Cross border sounds cool and all until you have 4am calls because of time zones.
Yes, and that sort of experience after a year or two puts you in the few and far between wouldn’t you say? As much as it would suck, I think the experience one would gain and how that becomes beneficial to long term career plans outweighs the grueling nature of it.
I would strongly disagree. The work is mostly all the same even on a cross border. Having really early mornings on top of the typical banking late nights doesn’t make you any better of a banker. I had far too many 6am calls to wake up to after typical 2-3am nights and I tried to avoid cross borders after that.
Thanks for shedding light on my ignorance. I meant not necessarily the calls at 4am but getting familiarized with the additional securities regulations/processes/current events, if at all, that may be specific to a cross border transaction. Or would you still insist that they are not that much different from domestic transactions in that respect?
Transatlantic deals are usually not by choice: it is quite inefficient to have teams working five/six hours behind from one another
As such, where you will see them occur is in banks that have just landed in Europe/ are trying to grow on a specific vertical. I believe Evercore HC (Europe) is in this latter boat
As you can expect, over time these banks will try to develop the skillset locally (may take some years however)
I work in corp dev. for a manufacturing company working on cross border transactions. I don't want to burst your bubble, but will say that i personally hate working on non-US deals. The pointless calls that everyone hates are now done at all hours of the day from 5am to 9pm. You wake up in the morning with client / buyer requests filling your inbox because their day started hours before yours, leading you to be pissed off within 5 minutes of waking up. I'm not really sure what aspects of a deal you think will be interesting from an international affairs perspective. The only topics I see are foreign direct investment reviews, never ending diligence requests and calls (at 5am) around nebulous import & export regulations / sanctioned products / product classification (which is excruciating to me), and nightmare VAT situations within and outside the EU that lead to brain damage by the time tax / finance diligence is done.
Thanks for the honesty. I primarily asked because I had assumed (incorrectly it seems based off the responses I have gotten) that cross border industrials M&A would have an aspect of keeping up with international affairs events and factoring that into sourcing M&A opportunities. I am trying to figure out where does keeping up with the economic/social conditions of countries and their relations to a US based company cross with IB?
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