Unfortunately Asian investment banks do not really take cold calls. Either you have guanxi (your dad is someone important in the Han elite) or you get in through the front door with a prestigious school, excellent grades in a quantitative discipline and fluent Mandarin Chinese.
Prestigious schools include Ivy League schools but most entry classes are increasingly filled with students from Tsinghua, Peking University, Zhejiang University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Nanjing University, University of Science and Technology of China, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
China investment banks
- Vermillion Partners China M&A Advisory – Boutique
- Guosen Partners China Investment Bank – Boutique
- China International Capital Corporation China Investment Bank
- CITIC Securities International China Investment Bank
Japan investment banks
- Mizuho Financial Group Global Investment Bank (Japan focused)
- Nomura Holdings Global Investment Bank (Japan focused)
- Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Global Investment Bank (Japan focused)
- Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Japan Investment Bank – Boutique
Asia investment banks
- Macquarie Group Australian
- CLSA – Asia
- SBI Capital Markets (State Bank of India) – Global Investment Bank (India focused) – Boutique
- Daewoo Securities – Korea M&A Advisory
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