Aware this may sound relatively left-field, but wondering re. the prospects of lateraling from McKinsey to a BB/EB at the associate level in London.

Choose consulting over IB at uni, and curiosity toward IB hasn’t subsided.

Keen to know if plausible, and if so, how best to go about it?

Thanks!

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Coming from a US perspective, your best chances are either:
1) going to an MBA or top Masters of Finance and recruiting into an IB
2) leaning into an industry niche and networking your way into an IB


Applying cold is very unlikely to land you anywhere.

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USA perspective: lateraled from consulting to banking but had to take the demotion to analyst. Consulting and banking are pretty different so unless you're working within some sort of M&A or valuation group, it's gonna be a tough switch specially now that the industry isn't going crazy like it was in 2021

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I did the opposite. PE to Consulting, which is a much easier switch. I think your path would require a higher degree and a ton of networking.

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