Houlihan Lokey - London

Hi there, does anyone has experience with the Houlihan Lokey corporate finance Team in London? I am interested in joining FT as analyst in 2016 and would appreciate insights regarding:

*dealflow
*pay
*mobility within the firm (how easy is it to transfer to another office, especially to CA)
*office size in terms of headcount

Thanks

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Growing

"After you work on Wall Street it’s a choice, would you rather work at McDonalds or on the sell-side? I would choose McDonalds over the sell-side.” - David Tepper
 
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Taleon

Growing how? Any particular reason for that? After all, they are in London since 2001.

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I'm going to tell you want is applicable to 70% of the "how great is XXX bank" questions. Got an offer? No? GTFO. Got an offer, but it is only offer? Take it. Got multiple offers? We're going to need more information than that.

"After you work on Wall Street it’s a choice, would you rather work at McDonalds or on the sell-side? I would choose McDonalds over the sell-side.” - David Tepper
 

I've worked alongside them once and they seemed pretty good - Do a lot of restructuring / advisory work rather than pure M&A.

Do you have any other offers? Because its a good brand....

 

good team, if you have an offer take it.

I'm talking about liquid. Rich enough to have your own jet. Rich enough not to waste time. Fifty, a hundred million dollars, buddy. A player. Or nothing. See my Blog & AMA
 

Is this FT or SA?

and is it for Restructuring or CorpFin?

You know you've been working too hard when you stop dreaming about bottles of champagne and hordes of naked women, and start dreaming about conditional formatting and circular references.
 

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