M&A Intern interview at a VC firm in 10 days: I got topics to be discussed. Can you advise me?
Hi everyone,
I would like to ask you, my more experienced collegues to give me advice on how to prepare for an interview for a M&A Intern position at an quite established European VC firm. I am still a business student mostly focused on accounting and business information systems. I have read a lot of VC books.
It is supposted to be a consulting style interview with the CEO and with the head of Corporate Development. I got a list of topics to be discussed:
Format: 2 separate one-on-one interviews
Topic: Personality and M&A issues; Consulting style interview with mini M&A life business case.
Contentwise: - M&A Process (Buy Side / Sell Side) - corporate finance Basics - Business Plan Modelling - Company Valuation - Research of Long lists - Info Memo
The intervies is in 10 days and I would love to prepare for it well. Can you please give me a few tips how to do that and what questions I might expect?
Thanks for every advice
vik10255
So is it an M&A firm or a VC firm? I haven't heard of too many large VC firms that have an M&A arm. If anything it would be the other way around.
Seems like from your description that you're trying to cover a bunch of different things. You say that it's M&A, Valuation, corporate finance, Buy Side and Sell Side, Investment Memos, VC, a case interview...
If it's M&A focused then you'll probably want to stick to more corporate finance, Valuation, and banking topics. So on the technical side of things thats Comps, DCF, knowing financial statements well, as well as becoming familiar with the firms recent M&A activity as well as the broader M&A environment in your geography.
If you're doing more of a VC investing role, you won't have to worry as much about the technical finance aspects and should focus more of Investment Memos, Cap Tables, Valuation, and opinions on tech/startups/early stage companies. Look at where the company has invested and have some ideas of other things they could look at.
Hi,
thanks for the reply. It is a VC firm (mostly seed funding I understand) providing M&A Advisory services supposedly mostly for their portfolio companies (some moderately known in CEE and Germany). I will interview for what they call 'M&A Intern' role. The topics are taken directly from an email they sent me.
Do you think I could PM you the company for a quick glance? Every comment helps.
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