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At least in London, the (E)SSG is far more than "just" a distressed HF. They have a diverse mandate across the different sub-teams doing everything from growth equity in Africa to plain vanilla Real Estate with a focus on Hotels.

There are a couple of Banks with a quite similar mandate as well like Macquarie (quite active in Europe), JPM (new team, currently ramping up) and especially BAML.

 

I know Citigroup has a SSG, but I'm not sure if what they do is comparable (work-wise, not prestige-wise) to the work done at Goldman SSG.

-------- Right now this is a job. If I advance any higher in this company, then this would be my career. And um... Well, if this were my career, I'd have to throw myself in front of a train.
 

An ex classmate of mine is going through the application process for ML GMI; more specifically he will be working on distressed assets in Europe.

One of the questions on the application is: What do you think your typical day will be (or something similar)?

Although he knows what he will be working on, he doesn't know whether the typical day looks like the one of a trader (6.30am - 7pm) or like the one of a M&A analyst (9am-2am) and does not want to come out as naive on the application.

Any thoughts?

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