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As a former employee they’re honestly all pretty mediocre - very frank advice, pick the team who you get along with the best, chill there for a year, then lateral to another bank. That’s what I did, currently at a bank some consider an EB

 
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Lies. Rothschild is a sweatshop. Had a VP there flat out ask me why 'I wanted to do this shit to myself' in a networking call, and then try and convince me to take up modelling instead. 

 

I think the European office did alot which is why its global market share but the US office certainly contributed! This means I worked at European EB and now a US EB at my new bank! I hope this shows everyone how solid the Rothschild franchise is

 

Wonder if this SVB shill is the same one trying to prop them up on every post or if SVB is asking all of their analysts to boost the bank on WSO and trash other banks

Funny how boring life must be there to spend so much time trying to convince people they are an “EB” on the internet

 

Excuse me but SVB is a highly respected institution by many bankers in the industry. We are pioneers within TMT and healthcare banking especially in the upper MM coverage, its actually proven that its becoming less uncommon to see people turn down places like JPM/CVP/Q for us. Maybe you're misinformed but we are certainly not "shills", just proud to be working at an up and coming EB :)  

 
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Just want to clear it up that not all folks aim to leave immediately! We have a great working culture as we're all not fancy "target" college people trying to prove a point but we are salt-of-the-earth people that want to foster meaaningful genuine relationships at the firm :)

It was a hard choice to leave as I really enjoyed my time there! Our deal flow is great for the ones we are involved in as they are best-in-class, high profile, and industry defining m&a and private placements. It was just a bit concerning to see the seniors get frustrated when things didnt go our way. It wasn't our fault but more of the overall markets affected by COVID and the clients sometimes being a bit too fickle. Not the best to see VP/MDs use cuss words or look a bit defeated and tired which is why I thought its better for a change of scenery to something more upbeat. But of course overall our senior leadership are content and very smart characters with some of the deepest industry experiences that is parallel to anywhere I have seen 

I would also politely disagree with chickenboy comments about RX. We have an amazing best-in-class RX franchise with a new partnership formed with Intrepid, the best establishment in the O&G sector. It's just that so many of these "new" shops pop up like pjt or ducera and whatever and just take away market share. Why would people trust these places that have literally opened for only a few years when we have an renonwed history and are famously known across the US and Europe. If I was a client, it would be hard for me to trust a start-up boutique over an establishment like us... just my two cents, oh well kids these days. Our RX team also provides great exit opps similar to the industry groups as well!        

 

THANK YOU to the poster who show us you don't need some elite background school for IBD. As one who's proudly from a "non-target" institution, I will be applying for a position here to showcase my talents and skills. People should understand that the academics is only one facet of a multi-faceted perspective because people are holistic and not just their degree from some "fancy pants" school as the poster describes LOL

Extra props that he paved the way to show we can all join up and coming EBs/BB from roths bank. Fellow non-targets lets all intern here in 2023 and beyond!!

 

What's that supposed to infer, you have to explain my young padawan :) We are plain non-fancy pants "target" folk in IBD  

 

It's generally driven from our colleagues across the pond in the Europe regions - the league table above is global count and you can see the breakdown by the geographies and countries. But we are top 25 in the US and that is still quite impressive :)  

 

For all who currently work there, would appreciate if you can chime in - is the work life balance & culture really as good as claimed? I ain't trying to kill myself averaging 80-90 hours/week and would like to work with nice, relaxed people. Don't really need mega deal-flow either  

 

~$360mil in Americas M&A fees. Most of it prolly US. In 2020, North America had much higher rev per head than in both the UK and France, though in 2019 rev per head was higher in the UK (not sure about France). Revenue would include: North America IB + PE, UK IB + PE + PWM, France IB + PWM
 

I think deals in the US just garner a higher fee as a percentage of deal size than deals in Europe do. 
 

Anecdotally, RX I’ve heard RX is stronger in the US than in Europe besides for Sovereign. This may change though since the old co heads left some years back. 
 

US comp is much higher than Europe comp despite Europe being stronger because apparently they have a prestige discount in Europe. 

 

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