Hello and welcome.

I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members

to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general.

Let's get to it.

In this episode, Max shares his path on how he broke into investment banking in London coming

from a non-target school in Italy. Learn how networking played a role, how he made the cut

during a competitive intern year with an offer rate under 50% and how he was able to close 10 deals in under four years once he joined full-time.

Listen to his struggles with private equity recruiting and how he balanced the difficult process

with his full-time banking role to successfully land on his feet.

Enjoy.

All right, Max, welcome to the Wall Street Oasis podcast.

Hey, Patrick. Nice to be here with you.

It'd be awesome if you could start just by giving the listeners a short summary of your bio.

Sure. So, yeah, I've studied my university in Italy.

It was corporate management.

And then after that, I moved to London.

I worked in Credit Suisse Investment Banking for four years.

It was like an amazing experience because,

you know, I had the chance to work for different teams, so product teams, but also industry

teams. So overall, you know, in four years, had the chance to work on 10 transactions,

also across different countries, you know, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, UK, and across different

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