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or is involved to give an 'M&A perspective'.

That is kind of the point of an M&A group. In general, yes the group does more modeling but at most banks they are the group that keeps a finger on the pulse of the M&A market. That can mean putting graphs on slides bench marking various M&A transactions or handling specialized comp sets.

I do feel like you may be a little disillusioned about how sexy or technical most modeling is. Sometimes a model will be a 30 minute accretion / dilution exercise with a few simple sensitivity tables. My group does fairly extensive modeling but we still are no where near "cranking out models day in and day out". Regardless, once you've done a few you'll see there really isn't a huge benefit of doing them all of the time.

 

So everyone you work with from Analyst to MD has told you that at the place you are working currently, the M&A group do more modelling. In fact they even told you in 6-months you'll be laughing at coverage groups with regards to their modeling abilities!

Yet you still don't believe them & have to ask the question? I cannot quite fathom this.. Fridays.

 

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