Ask Banks For Their Models To Use For Practice?
There are so few investment banking case studies in circulation unlike consulting. I was thinking about starting a student org, and then approaching investment banks asking to have access to their deal models (M&A, LBO, valuation etc).
Let's say we draw up an official NDA and everything. Why would the bank say no? What would the bank be losing from doing this? Why isn't this a thing already? Every deal the bank does is a new case study, and with this in mind there are thousands of case studies sitting out there.
What road blocks will I face if I try to do this?
Not happening mate but wish you the best of luck.
Lmao... good luck. Why don’t you send out a bunch of emails. Could be a good laugh for some of the analysts/associates. Maybe they’ll offer you an interview...
Your opening line is also flat out wrong. Use google. Dozens of cases, valuation exercises and courses.
You are better off having people come in, from the banks themselves, as a 'career day' or something to speak about how to think about valuation, transactions, banking, etc. Try and do that through your alumni network.
To the models - no bank is going to give you those, especially the 'actual' models themselves used in the transactions. It's pure risk with proprietary information - with no upside. Besides - the relevant part of this entire exercise is to better understand the thinking behind the assumptions that go into the models... which come from the people involved. Getting a model without all of that is, in my view, somewhat pointless.
Great response thanks for the insights
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