It is one of the strongest M&T groups on the street. From what I hear, the group has a really good culture - laid back but lot of heavy lifting as the group is quite lean. It has some serious muscle with quite a few rainmakers.

The group is quite big with sponsors and therefore logically, smaller carriers and media companies. It does however bank the bigger telco names as well - just not as much as JPM or MS. I would rank it at or with JPM for telecom, emerging telecom and fiber / data.

 
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It is one of the strongest M&T groups on the street. From what I hear, the group has a really good culture - laid back but lot of heavy lifting as the group is quite lean. It has some serious muscle with quite a few rainmakers.

The group is quite big with sponsors and therefore logically, smaller carriers and media companies. It does however bank the bigger telco names as well - just not as much as JPM or MS. I would rank it at or with JPM for telecom, emerging telecom and fiber / data.

I heard the direct opposite from a friend in the group right now (extreme levels of pitching/profiling and minimal M&A/sponsor exposure).

There's just not a lot of appetite for M&T-related sponsor deals right now (in my opinion, that train may have passed due to the extreme consolidation in the industry over the past few years; you're not going to see buyouts of companies like Alltel in the near future and the telecom/cable companies with value are already either consolidated conglomerates or very highly levered).

If this is your only option it's fine because it's a BB. If not, I would seek a more product-specific role at either DB [thinking M&A, obv.] or one of the banks listed above that brings in more business/offers greater learning opps. [JPM / MS].

Also know people at DB who passed this group up full-time to go to groups like Real Estate.

 
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It is one of the strongest M&T groups on the street. From what I hear, the group has a really good culture - laid back but lot of heavy lifting as the group is quite lean. It has some serious muscle with quite a few rainmakers.

The group is quite big with sponsors and therefore logically, smaller carriers and media companies. It does however bank the bigger telco names as well - just not as much as JPM or MS. I would rank it at or with JPM for telecom, emerging telecom and fiber / data.

I heard the direct opposite from a friend in the group right now (extreme levels of pitching/profiling and minimal M&A/sponsor exposure).

There's just not a lot of appetite for M&T-related sponsor deals right now (in my opinion, that train may have passed due to the extreme consolidation in the industry over the past few years; you're not going to see buyouts of companies like Alltel in the near future and the telecom/cable companies with value are already either consolidated conglomerates or very highly levered).

If this is your only option it's fine because it's a BB. If not, I would seek a more product-specific role at either DB [thinking M&A, obv.] or one of the banks listed above that brings in more business/offers greater learning opps. [JPM / MS].

Also know people at DB who passed this group up full-time to go to groups like Real Estate.

Traditional telecom (wireless and wireline) is down the tubes - can't see any big merger happening until AT&T / T-Mo gets regulatory approval / decline. But a bunch of activity in smaller players - or at least was there til Pre-August. Besides the Sprint's bond issuance (JPM), market is frozen. So I think you are right in no live activity - just a lot of pitching to sponsors for the smaller peripheral players.

You will probably get more M&A exposure at MS or CS because that's their chops.

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