Looking to break into investment banking M&A as a lateral analyst. Been doing Valuations for almost a year (graduated spring 2018 from ug). I've practiced modeling and finance questions. Cont...

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You won’t have any problem if you are looking at entry level IB roles, beyond the fact that IB firms are selective in general. You are qualified and they will be extremely impressed with your technical valuation knowledge and modeling skills - we way over engineer our work compared to IB

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What do you mean by over engineer?

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Search alumni of your group that are now in banking

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I've spoken to a several in other groups, but unfortunately the school I went to does not have many in M&A.

Super passionate about getting into banking. Any tips or someone who's willing to chat with me? Would greatly appreciate it!

All about networking homie. U may have some recruiters reach out to you on LinkedIn but I noticed those aren’t exactly for quality boutiques. If you want to go somewhere nice and choose specific group u gotta network yourself there. It doesn’t have to be alum from ur UG school. Can literally be anyone and everyone who shares something similar to you. It’s a tough game but banking is a hard spot to get into. Especially m&a

Yeah man I usually try and look for ppl at the gym or on the subway with those banker bags and try and chat with them haha. Whatever it takes

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