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How to Discuss Your
OWN Deals in Interviews
How to Bankify Like a ProThis Lesson: Refer to the Written Doc
These questions could be VERY
important for you, or they could be
completely irrelevant
...
– it all depends on
your experience!
We lay it all out in the written guide, but
I’ll add a few more points here and give
several examples.How to Discuss Your Own Deals in Interviews
• Prior Transaction Experience: These questions are important!
• “Prior Transaction Experience”: You worked in IB, you advised
clients at a Big 4 or law firm, you worked on credit analysis, you
worked on Purchase Price Allocation, you were in consulting…
• Time Required: Probably need 3-4 hours to prepare thoroughly,
possibly up to 8-10 hours for the two deals we recommend
• These Questions Are Not Relevant When: You’re a 1st year
undergrad, you have no prior client/transaction experience, etc.How to Discuss Your Own Deals in Interviews
• We cannot help much with information gathering – they’re your
deals, and you have the documents, so we’ll focus on:
• How to Select the Right Deals – Select the two best deals based on
your personal contributions
• How to Structure Your Discussions – Same 100-150-word outline
and 200-300-word discussion
• How to “Bankify” Deal Experience from Non-IB Roles – How to
make corporate law experience sound like M&A dealsThe 5-Step Process for Deal Discussions
• Step 1: Understand what bankers want to hear
• Step 2: Select two deals based on your contributions and, if
possible, on their status and “fame”
• Step 3: Review the deal documents such as the CIM, model, and
activity log; a few hours is fine, but don’t spend days on this part
• Step 4: Spend a total of 30 minutes outlining your discussion and
planning for possible follow-up questions and your answers
• Step 5: Practice your discussions so that they last 1-2 minutesHow to Select the Right Deals
• We recommend picking two deals and preparing discussions
• Focus on deals where you made the biggest personal contributions
• Closed deals and ones that involve well-known companies are
good as well, but what you did matters most
• Often: You’ll have to spin early-stage deals and pitches into
sounding more significant (e.g., with super-early PE recruiting)
• But… you still want to focus on unique tasks and contributions
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