Centerview Partners
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Centerview is one of Wall Street's most highly respected M&A advisory firms. It's known for working on high-profile deals for clients like CBS, CVS Health, and Time Warner. Centerview is also known for compensating its people very well. Salaries and bonuses are top-notch, medical benefits are excellent, and it offers many other perks like free breakfast and lunch and large dinner stipends. Recently, the firm has made a huge push to improve its diversity recruiting efforts.
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A very prestigious investment banking boutique, Centerview is looking for well-rounded, driven, intellectually curious, creative thinkers with excellent communication and interpersonal skills and a strong interest in finance. For students, the firm runs an extremely valuable internship program. Interns have access to live deal experience, in-house training, informal and formal mentoring, networking events, and the ability to work alongside MDs and partners. For its full-time junior bankers, Centerview offers extensive learning and growth opportunities, including a high level of responsibility on live transactions, very helpful formal training led by bankers within the firm, firmwide webinars, lunch-and-learn sessions with senior bankers, informal and formal mentorship opportunitie...
About the Company
In 2006, UBS Vice Chairman Blair Effron had dinner with his friend Robert Pruzan, a veteran investment banker and former CEO of Wasserstein Perella. The two men decided to capitalize on the lucrative M&A boom by going into business together, opening a boutique they dubbed Centerview Partners—the name came from the view at their new office on the 19th floor of Rockefeller Center. The firm has since moved to larger offices in New York; it also has offices in London, Menlo Park, Paris and San Francisco. And today, that firm’s clients include 20 percent of the 50 largest companies in the world.
At Centerview, there are just two lines of business: M&A advisory and restructuring/capital advisory, with both businesses addressing strategic, financial, and operational issues for its clients. (An affiliated capital group...
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- “People at Centerview care about maintaining a work/life balance. I’ve been pleasantly surprised with my quality of life here. As long as I communicate, I can usually make important plans. Managers do a great job letting their junior teams have free time. Additionally, there are great perks to the job, and I enjoy being in the office since the people are great. The nature of the job is of course long and unpredictable hours, so it can be hard at times, but that’s central to a client-facing job, and the cu...
Getting Hired Here
- “First rounds generally led by campus teams and consist of one behavioral and one technical interview (one hour total). If selected for the Super Day, candidates will come to NYC for a dinner and a few hours of interviews the next morning (five interviews, two-on-ones, different themes to each). Callbacks are quick—within 24-48 hours.”
- “Interview process is very people-driven, no digital aspect whatsoever. Candidates meet a very high number of the employees during the process so everyo...
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