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Greenhill is a leading M&A advisory firm that cares about giving its interns a strong learning experience. Interns work on live deals alongside clients and senior bankers. Full-time junior bankers work on lean deal teams, getting extraordinary responsibility and close interaction with senior bankers. At Greenhill, the people are polite, kind, helpful, and supportive.
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Greenhill is looking for hardworking, driven, personable candidates with strong communication skills and high levels of competency in accounting and finance. The firm runs a valuable internship program, offering students significant hands-on experience, exposure to a variety of transaction types, and the ability to work alongside senior bankers. For its full-time professionals, Greenhill offers extensive career development opportunities, including great mentorship, helpful formal training, significant on-the-job training, and a generalist program that exposes new analysts and associates to a variety of industries and deals.
Greenhill’s culture is described as collaborative, open, and friendly by its professionals. In addition, there’s no busy work—the vast major...
About the Company
Greenhill calls itself “a unique investment banking firm,” and to be sure, it a service model quite unlike its behemoth competitors. The firm focuses primarily on its advisory work, which includes mergers, acquisitions, restructurings, financings, capital raisings, and secondary fund investment sales.
Greenhill is a relatively young one by Wall Street standards: less than 30 years old. In 1996, Robert F. Greenhill, former head of Smith Barney and former president of Morgan Stanley, struck out on his own and founded an eponymous boutique firm. More recently, in December 2023, Tokyo-based Mizuho Financial Group acquired Greenhill (which kept its name and leadership team in place following the deal). This combination provides clients with both advisory and financing solutions, leveraging the expertise of Greenhill wit...
Employee Reviews
- “Quality of life is great here. I get to do meaningful work and enjoy the people I work with. The culture is phenomenal, and I get great exposure to client meetings.”
- “There is very rarely busy work at the firm. When a person is on a deal, they are doing meaningful work that is often used in advising clients or making presentations. We have very little work that doesn’t have a purpose.”
- “Taking time off is very supported as long as there’s adequate time that the team is given notice so everyone can plan accordingly.”
- “Culture is quite pleasant, collaborative, and friendly, and there’s not much of a ‘face time’ culture. As long as you’re performing well and getting your work done, you have a great deal of freedom. Not much in the way of formal protections for work/life balance, so when you’re busy it can be a bit relentless, but when things are quiet there tends not to be a lot of busy work.”
Getting Hired Here
- “We generally conduct information sessions and informal coffee chats to meet candidates. Then we host first-round interviews, followed by a Super Day. We generally seek well-rounded candidates that demonstrate an interest in banking and display high levels of competency in accounting and finance.”
- “Callback process is fairly quick after your first round for a Super Day. The firm is seeking diligent, hardworking candidates who can communicate well with peers and clients.”
- “Other than getting technicals right and being a pleasant person to speak to, the most important way a candidate can differentiate themselves is by showing a genuine interest in Greenhill and our platform.”
- “Looking for driven but personable candidates who are highly capable with respect to technical topics. Managing others (as associates will be working with analysts) is also considered to be important.”
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