2023 Lazard Investment Banking Summer Associate – New York

Lazard is a global advisory firm where we compete on intellectual capital, not physical or financial capital. Our Financial Advisory business deals with relevant problems that matter in an increasingly complicated world. As a member of our team, you will work alongside the industry’s most iconic and accomplished practitioners and have a front-row seat to some of the most complex, transformational and marquee deals in the marketplace. Your input will affect the outcome.

As a Summer Associate at Lazard, you will work as part of small client teams which provide a wide range of services, including general financial advice, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, special committee assignments, takeover defenses, corporate restructuring, strategic partnerships/joint ventures, and advice on capital structure. 

You will begin your internship by participating in a week-long comprehensive training program in New York. Following training, you will work across different M&A industry groups or Restructuring with one major and one minor concentration.  Our M&A industry groups are: Consumer & Retail, Financial Institutions (FIG), Healthcare, Industrials, Power, Energy, Infrastructure (PEI), Real Estate, and Telecommunications, Media & Entertainment (TME).  Placement is based your background and preferences as well as Lazard’s business needs.

During the Summer Associate program, our goal is for you to enjoy a uniquely tailored experience which includes accountability to a specific group as well as opportunities for building relationships and skills across other groups at the Firm. You will receive formal mentorship, exposure to our Leadership Team, and are invited to participate in various social and networking events with bankers across the Firm.

Day-to-day activities are dependent on your prior experience and abilities, and include: financial analysis and modeling, the creation and preparation of client presentations, and interaction with clients, among other things.

Qualifications

• Preferably 2-3 years of prior work experience
• Currently matriculated at a MBA, JD or other graduate program and within two years of graduation
• Top academic performer who is comfortable in an unstructured environment which values initiative, creativity, maturity, and poise
• Strong quantitative background
• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Highly motivated
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to multi-task
• Team player

Compensation: Pro-rated base annual salary of $185,000

Additional opportunities are available in our Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. If interested in those opportunities, please note in your cover letter.

Please also submit your application via Lazard's career website at www.lazard.com/careers