How to Showcase Deals on Resume

Currently a junior in undergrad. Got the chance to intern at a boutique m&a advisory shop over the summer and still am working there part time throughout the school year.

I was wondering how I should go about showcasing the deals I worked with on my resume, especially since most of the deals I worked on haven’t closed yet.

Is there any basic format I should follow or any numbers I should include. Like the size of the client, or size of each deal.

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My biggest recommendation, and this is not really much of a shocker, is to use language that demonstrates the deal hasn't closed yet. For example, say things like "advised x on their potential acquisition of y" or "advised x on their potential acquisition of [describe target without saying its name]" as the main bullet, and then explain what you did on the deal.

You just need the main bullet to identify it is an ongoing deal, and then your sub-bullets where you describe what you did can just speak to what you did on the deal.

 

Got it. Thanks! Was planning on doing that for two on the ongoing deals I am working on.

Only thing with that is that it starting to taking up a lot of space on my resume (bc of the sub-bullets), relative to everything else. But it is also by far the most relevant stuff I have on there. Should I be concerned with how much space it takes up or am I just overthinking it?

 

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