Mergers and acquisitions

You join a bank's mergers and acquisitions team as a graduate analyst, helping companies buy, sell or combine businesses. The seat sits in M&A (Sectors & Advisory) within Global Banking at BNP Paribas, the part of the bank that serves large companies and institutions. The team advises companies and institutions on mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, restructurings and an IPO, which is when a company first sells its shares to the public.The work runs from valuing a business, through the financial analysis behind that value, to negotiating and closing the deal. The programme is the M&A Global Banking Graduate programme, starting in 2027.

The role is non-rotational, so you join one team and stay in it for the whole programme. The teams are Real Estate, Consumer retail and healthcare, Low carbon group, Industrials, TMT and Advisory UK. Real Estate covers leisure, lodging, data centres and property technology. Low carbon group covers power and utilities, new energies, and the minerals and metals used in the energy transition. Industrials runs from aerospace and defence through automotive and machinery to chemicals and packaging. TMT covers technology, media and telecoms. Advisory UK advises large UK companies and investors on any kind of deal, whatever the sector.