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DC Advisory is an international middle-market investment bank committed to making a difference in people’s lives. It specializes in cross-border deals, and combines the knowledge and experience of a global bank with the creativity and flexibility of a boutique. It has an open, caring, collaborative, entrepreneurial culture that's focused on mentorship, training, and offering junior bankers early responsibility.
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DC Advisory is ideally looking for smart, positive, hardworking team players with a strong understanding of finance and valuation, and excellent communication and social skills. The firm runs a highly valuable internship program, offering students hands-on live deal experience, client-facing opportunities, and access to helpful senior bankers. Meanwhile, full-time junior bankers have access to many growth and development opportunities, including excellent training, a lot of live deal experience, the ability to work with a wide variety of senior professionals, and fantastic international opportunities.
DC Advisory offers flexible hours and a WFH policy, which bankers very much appreciate. There are also ‘protected Saturdays’ for some groups, and although working o...
About the Company
DC Advisory is an international investment bank. As part of an established global business, it offers access to over 700 professionals in 23 locations throughout Asia, Europe, and the US. Across 11 industry-focused teams, the firm offers tailored, independent advice on M&A, debt raisings and restructurings, and private capital, and provides access to unrivalled Asia investment knowledge.
Employee Reviews
“Flexible hours and WFH policy are great. It’s so nice to be able to leave at 5 p.m., have dinner with my family, and then log back on at home later in the evening. WFH every Friday and optionally Monday is a plus. Protected Saturdays too.”
“High caliber people (at junior and senior levels) and strong culture make it easy to enjoy working with your deal team. Unfortunately, Saturdays are not necessarily ‘protected.’”
“DCA is pretty right down the middle in terms of banking experience. Hours are long when deals are busy, but I don’t believe that the expectations are unreasonable. There is lots of live deal work, but the quality of deals we take on can be low, which hurts morale. On the positive side, managing directors tend to be pretty reasonable in terms of how hard they push juniors, and most are pretty good about not ‘creating’ work for no reason.”
“Very pleased with quality of life and firm’s policies of working from home and allowing us to go to the gym during the day. Also, the firm allows you to take off unlimited vacation, and senior bankers are generally respectful of that.”
Why Work Here
DC Advisory is an international investment bank committed to making a difference. As part of an established global business, we offer access to over 500 professionals in 21 locations throughout Asia, Europe and the US. Across 11 industry focused teams, we offer tailored, independent advice on M&A, debt raisings and restructurings, private capital and access to unrivalled Asia investment knowledge.
Getting Hired Here
“I feel like the firm does a good job of looking for people who will build the culture and who have the abilities to learn and respond well to feedback. I appreciate that that is prioritized vs. cramming technical questions that don't become relevant on the job for a while/are learned on the job.”
“The ideal candidate is strong technically and behaviorally, exhibits a genuine interest in the firm, ideally is diverse, etc. Process-wise, interviews are pretty standard. An intro call, a formal interview, then a Superday. It aligns closely with how most banks do it.”
“I think our interview process is largely unstructured. There are vastly different timelines for different demographics and schools. I believe the ideal candidate is someone who is smart, has a relatively strong understanding of finance and valuation, has a positive attitude, and is very hardworking, an excellent communicator, and a team player. We also want the person to be likeable and have good social skills.”
“The firm is big on culture fit. They believe anyone can learn the skills and do the job with guidance, but not everyone can be an enjoyable person to work with. We look for good people who bring positive energy and work hard.
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