What are some of the worst deals you’ve been on and why? I am currently working with some of the most obnoxious investment bankers.

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Target was working with an IB that set up a new data site, didn't tell anybody externally or even reference it. Just started marking things as closed and gave vague "this was already uploaded" answers.

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Name the IB firm ;)

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All of them

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Probably the one where the Spanish parent company wanted to sell NA operations. We gathered all the data from the NA operations who had a bloated back office And made a ton of expense accruals for 'expected costs' like union fines which they then would reverse when they didn't come to fruition. NA didn't want to admit the bloated back office and wouldn't let us layer in a lower go-forward back office expense. We would go back and forth on the adjustment.

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This hit me too hard.

Whatever it is for each fish, it can always be worse.

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