Exit opps for S&T syndicate loans?

Hi. I’m currently on a 1 year internship at a relatively large European bank in London. I work on the syndicated loans desk where I support both sales and trading with their needs.

For those not familiar with syndicated loans, some of the loans we cover are corporate credit, project finance and trade finance to name a few sections.


As we only deal with the private market, it is a lot more illiquid and slower than what I’d assume a traditional S&T desk to be like. Due to this, Sales also execute trades as well as their normal sales duties.


The desk also shares the same area as the lev fin and underwriting teams as we work closely with them and their work is also interesting, although I definitely prefer the market sides of things.

We work closely with PE/PC firms, Credit AMs/CLOs and HF. Assuming I work on this desk for a few more years, what could exit opps to the buy side look like? I would ideally want to move to a HF but not as an execution trader, I would like to work my way to Junior PM/PM.


Any advice will be greatly appreciate.

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