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I’ve never been busier than this summer, including 2021/2022
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55ish since may, sustained juggling 3-4 projects
I typically work on 4-5 sell sides at a time year round
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Busy and it's going to stay that way. A lot of sell sides prepped to hit the market around labor day
After labor day all the bankers hit the market with their sell-sides, then buy-sides get busier so deals can close before year end. The mega deals big 4 deal with are outside of my visibility though
4-5 sell sides as a SA sounds impossible unless you have tons of support from associates/interns, and even then that sounds crazy. How’re you holding up?
Just fine? Its a 3 person team and we average maybe 25-30 hours per week. Never work weekends or late nights. This shit aint rocket science and your schedule is only as bad as the degree to which PE and IBs are allowed to push you around. We don’t get told when they need something, we get asked when we can deliver it.
That’s just the nature of sell sides. You do roll forwards, addons, have pauses in going to market, etc. you’re not under bullshit LOI high pressure timelines. I’ve interviewed with a couple of firms that do majority buy side and the second I hear that I mentally check out. No thanks
Yes. Getting crushed.