Mid-Market M&A

Hello everyone,

does anyone have experience at RBC "mid-market" M&A or Big4 Corp finance M&A

Curious about exit opps and if this closes any doors on working at boutique investment banks in the future.

Thank.

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Heard PwC revamped the team and is doing pretty well, but rest.. meh. RBC definitely sounds like a better bet (Just looking at the mergermerket and they were doing pretty good this year)

 

Can you elaborate on that? I thought working on many smaller deals would give you the better learning experience than working on one mega deal since you get to see many different structures.

Also, which experience is better, sell-side M&A or buy-side M&A?

Thanks

 

Because it's not what we do. It may be what pays the bills at Houlihan or Jefferies, but at a bulge bracket bank we don't give a shit about it. Middle Market is where you dump people who don't make the cut for investment banking.

If you want to do MM, go someplace that cares about it and puts good people on it. MM at a BB bank is Siberia.

 

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