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1164 firms, sorted by open now
Firm	Kind	London team	Money it invests	Group market value	Deals advised	London office	Open now
Squarepoint Capital	Quantitative hedge fund	~ 650 people				City of London	36
JPMorgan	Large global investment bank			£660bn		Canary Wharf	35
G-Research	Trading firm					Soho	34
DRW	Trading firm	~ 380 people				City of London	29
Hudson River Trading	Trading firm	~ 160 people				City of London	23
Jane Street	Trading firm	~ 800 people				City of London	23
Citigroup	Large global investment bank			£161bn		Canary Wharf	22
Goldman Sachs	Large global investment bank	~ 4450 people		£192bn		City of London	21
Rothschild & Co	Independent advisory bank	~ 950 people			334 in 2025	City of London	19
Morgan Stanley	Large global investment bank			£220bn		Canary Wharf	14
Point72	Hedge fund, several strategies	~ 320 people	~ £34bn			St James's	14
EY	Advisory firm				370 in 2025	Southwark	12
Bank of America	Large global investment bank			£281bn		City of London	11
Blackstone	Large private equity firm	~ 490 people	~ £975bn			Mayfair	11
BNP Paribas	Large global investment bank			£82bn			11
Crédit Agricole CIB	European investment bank			£41bn		City of London	11
DV Trading	Trading firm					City of London	11
Maven Securities	Trading firm					City of London	11
Wintermute	Trading firm	~ 80 people					11
Barclays	Large global investment bank			£57bn		Canary Wharf	10
Citadel Securities	Trading firm	~ 270 people				City of London	9
Standard Chartered	International investment bank			£45bn			9
Interpath Advisory	Specialist advisory firm					City of London	8
Macquarie	International investment bank			£44bn		City of London	8
PIMCO	Investment firm	~ 30 people	~ £1,747bn			Marylebone	8
UBS	Large global investment bank			£107bn			8
Man Group	Hedge fund, several strategies	~ 1050 people	~ £190bn			City of London	7
MUFG Securities	European investment bank	~ 650 people		£186bn			7
Nomura	International investment bank	~ 2000 people		£21bn		City of London	7
Capital Group	Asset manager	~ 18 people	~ £2,250bn				6
Citadel	Hedge fund, several strategies	~ 650 people	~ £50bn to £57bn			City of London	6
GSA Capital	Quantitative hedge fund		~ £2bn to £3.6bn in 2022			Mayfair	6
HSBC	Large global investment bank			£236bn		Canary Wharf	6
IMC Trading	Trading firm	~ 40 people					6
PJT Partners	Independent advisory bank	~ 300 people		£4.1bn	72 in 2025	Mayfair	6
Capula Investment Management	Hedge fund, macro	~ 12 people	~ £22bn to £23bn			Mayfair	5
Dartmouth Partners	Advisory firm					City of London	5
Evercore	Independent advisory bank	~ 430 people		£7.6bn		Mayfair	5
FTI Consulting	Advisory firm	~ 1300 people		£2.8bn		City of London	5
Headlands Technologies	Trading firm					City of London	5
Jefferies	International investment bank	~ 1250 people		£7.6bn		City of London	5
William Blair	International investment bank					City of London	5
Xantium	Trading firm					Mayfair	5
Brevan Howard	Hedge fund, macro	~ 11 people	~ £23bn to £26bn			Marylebone	4
Brooks Macdonald	Asset manager	~ 12 people	~ £21bn				4
CPP Investments	Sovereign wealth fund	~ 65 people	~ £432bn			Marylebone	4
Deutsche Bank	Large global investment bank	~ 6700 people		£47bn		City of London	4
DWS Group	Bank			£11bn		City of London	4
Kroll	Bank						4
Lincoln International	International investment bank	~ 120 people		£1.8bn	430 in 2025	Covent Garden	4
Moelis & Company	Independent advisory bank			£3.4bn	154 in 2025	Marylebone	4
RBC Capital Markets	International investment bank			£202bn		City of London	4
StepStone Group	Fund of funds		~ £174bn				4
Wells Fargo	International investment bank			£186bn			4
Winton	Quantitative hedge fund	~ 160 people	~ £6.4bn to £7.5bn in 2023			Chelsea	4
Apollo Global Management	Large private equity firm	~ 400 people	~ £703bn				3
Balyasny Asset Management	Hedge fund, several strategies		~ £24bn to £27bn			St James's	3
bp Trading & Shipping	Trading firm					Canary Wharf	3
Brookfield	Infrastructure investor	~ 120 people	~ £285bn			Canary Wharf	3
Cantor Fitzgerald	Bank						3

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Leveraged finance

Crédit Agricole CIB · Leveraged Finance

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The path

Juniors join from~ A bank
This teamLeveraged finance~ 1.7 years usual stay
Next stop, usually~ A bank

What it does

Leveraged finance is the team at Crédit Agricole CIB that arranges debt for companies which already carry a lot of it, most often because a private equity fund has bought them. Private equity funds buy whole companies with a mix of their own money and borrowed money, and that borrowed money is what this team provides. Inside the bank the group is called Corporate & Leveraged Finance. It finds these deals, advises on them, structures the debt and carries them through to completion, either as loans sold on to banks and institutions or as high yield bonds, which pay more interest because the borrower is riskier. Its clients are private equity backed companies and large corporate borrowers, including those in technology, media and telecommunications.

It differs from the bank's other lending teams in what it lends against. Structured finance builds a loan around a specific asset such as a ship or a power plant and is repaid from what that asset earns. Debt capital markets helps borrowers sell bonds to investors. Leveraged finance lends against the cash flow of a whole business that is already heavily indebted, so the work is about judging how much more debt the company can bear and whether it can keep paying interest if trading turns down. The team also looks after the loans the bank already holds, following how each borrower is trading and handling requests to change loan terms.

A junior splits time between live deals and that portfolio. On a deal you research the sector, pull together comparable transactions and their pricing, build the model that tests the company's ability to service its debt, and read the information memorandum, the document that describes the company to its lenders, alongside the business plan and due diligence reports. You help draft the credit application, the paper that asks the bank's credit committee to approve the loan, and prepare pitch materials for private equity firms. On the portfolio you analyse borrowers' accounts, write annual reviews and run know your customer checks on new clients. London takes interns into the team for 12 months.

Jobs


Job	Stage	Posted
Industrial placement
Leveraged finance	Second or second-to-last year at university	3 weeks