Lifestyle and hours at start-up boutique M&amp;A shops - Zaoui, BDT, LionTree, Robey Warshaw, M. Klein

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thesenna

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I think with boutiques the lifestyle and hours vary on their specific culture. I interned at an M&A boutique in NY this summer and the hours varied a lot. Typically, the bosses came in very late. My boss came at 11 am on a good day and 2/3 pm on a bad day. The CEO had inverted sleeping hours so she came in between 4 and 7 PM and some days not at all.

As you can imagine, when your bosses come in at those hours you are probably not leaving at 6...and us interns and analysts came in between 8 and 10 am. M&A tends to have a bit of a procrastination culture and working until the am hours is not a strange concept. A lot of the work doesn't have a specific deadline so things tend to get pushed back until the bosses say "we need to get on this" or "we should send this presentation tonight". I would often be handed work between 7 and 10 pm and sometimes it needed to be done by morning. The analysts would stay later than us interns. You should network with people in those specific shops and ask about the lifestyle if you think it's appropriate to raise the question.

JunkyardDawg

Thanks - was this boutique the kind of firm as mentioned in the post title? True boutiques that work on large-cap, mega deals? (e.g. M. Klein & Co. advised on the Dow/DuPont merger)

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thesenna

No, it was more MM. They have done some huge deals in the past, but mostly MM.

BeautifullyConfused

I'd like to resurrect this thread. Does anyone have any insight towards deal flow and exit ops for M Klein and Co or Peter J Solomon?

Banker88

Late to thread but probably boss exit opps. If you have solid deal experience and can network, you never know where you end up.

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Johnson's Son

Any updates on these shops for FT recruiting? Do they recruit out of SA positions or FT as well?

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