Any good ideas for Summer Associate projects in M&A? I’ve been assigned as the summer project coordinator for corporate this year.

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Do training with them -- engagement letters, how to do a hand markup, how to do schedules, how to do a diligence memo, what makes a rep buyer friendly v. seller friendly, mat scrapes/knowledge qualifiers, public v. private deal differences, what is in a S-8, do a short M&A negotiation across an afternoon, data room best practices, what makes a good junior, redlining etiquette, defined terms/x-ref checks, DGCL that affects M&A most directly.

Have senior partners fo a preso on "war stories or lessons learned"

Have midlevels and seniors do a panel on "day in the life" and how their roles changed as they got more senior.

Have partners do a "best practices in negotiations" preso

Teach them about good resources--PLC, ABA Dealpoints survey, ABA model puchase agmts, LW book of jargon, Intelligize.

If you need any deal metrics, have them review deals your group has done and chart or summarize for marketing purposes.



I realize not all of this is sexy, but you can do one training a week, with mock assignments, and these are real skills juniors need.

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Edit: teach them to follow nonequitypartner on insta too.

And read Matt Levine's MoneyStuff every day.

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Circulate the dial-in

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Lol, and grab me a grande pike with almond milk

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Have them take the first stab on any documents that aren’t time sensitive and then go over the redline with them when you have time

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You just don’t see them because you have to hyperfocus on all the (supposedly) urgent ones

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