Financial Advisory Summer Intern Review

by Lazard

Rating

4.9/5
  • Skills
    5.0
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.8
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

    • I was placed in the Venture & Growth Banking team, which advises Series B-D companies on raising fundraising rounds >$50m. I was fortunate to work on all stages of the fundraising process across a variety of clients (sector analysis and business modelling / pitching to startup / fundraise mandate terms / VDR preparation and investor sounding / fundraising process / term sheet negotiation)

    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

    • My main takeaways from the 10 weeks were financial modelling skills and a deeper understanding of how to identify valuable businesses and business models in both established and nascent sectors

  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?

    • 5/5
  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

    • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

    • Yes - from the first day I was trusted to run calls with clients on my own

  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

    • 5/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

    • My team were enormously helpful and supportive. I was also given a buddy who I met with regularly and a senior mentor who I had a few meetings with

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

    • 5/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

    • High-performance and hard-working environment that also felt very inclusive

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate the social opportunities?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

    • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

    • Very much enjoyed my internship. I thought it was extremely well structured

  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship

    • 5/5
  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations

    • 5/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Lazard

    • 5/5
  • 7. Would you recommend Lazard to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Lazard

    • Remember that Lazard is a financial advisory firm - clients are paying for advice! As such, at the end of the day Lazard will look to hire people that are personable and can deliver advice in a meaningful and trustworthy manner

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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Investment Banking

London

November 2022

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