Investment Banking from Law Degree

Yeah the MBA route is good as well

People do still transfer as partners in MC/BigLaw to investment banks. When I say small investment banks, I'm not talking piddly little things - boutique investment banks are only small on a relative scale, and can often pay the most senior guys more than top equity partners at top law firms.

Well look, I think you can move into investment banking at two stages.

If you do Law at university and you're at a good university, you can apply for analyst internships and get an offer for a proper analyst position for when you graduate. If you're at a target university, this is easily possible. There is no real degree that is perfect for IB. My friends studying medicine managed to get a summer analyst IB internship from Oxford. Many people do it when studying Law.

The other way to do it is to start working as a lawyer and then use a 2 year MBA program to move into finance. If you got an MBA from somewhere like London Business School or INSEAD (in Paris) then you'd have a good chance of moving into IB as an associate (higher than an analyst). This is more expensive and wastes a little more time but it means you can work within Law for a while before you move into IB.

I think you need to understand its more important where you study and how you do while you're there, rather than what you study.

I get what you're saying however, I know that at the end of the day, I am going to do well whilst I am there because that's the type of person I am. Where I study is important but if I want to go onto do a Masters somewhere more prestigious, that is more significant than where I do under-grad.
It's worked for everyone in my family so far so I don't lack hope in that opportunity.

I'd echo Magnus Taylor's question. If you do a law degree at one of the IB target universities (Oxbridge, LSE, Imperial, Warwick, UCL), you may be able to transfer. However, you've applied (If I can remember correctly - I can't see your post right here) to non-targets. It will be even more difficult for an IB recruiter to see a non-target lawyer as a potential IBD employee. I was speaking to a senior associate at a mid-cap PE firm the other day and he told me that it was unusual for a person with a law degree to be employed in a capacity that doesn't utilise their legal knowledge.

I've just spoken to dad, who, before he retired a couple of years ago, was an MD at a large investment bank. He told me your best shot is to get into a Magic/Silver circle law firm (maybe BigLaw if you want to go to America as well?), get into the corporate M&A department and then, after a number of years - hopefully getting somewhere near partner - transferring to a slightly smaller boutique investment bank where you can join as a senior member and so be able to do some more of the dealmaking.

Doing Law really shouldn't hold you back from applying to investment banks. So long as your application is good, you have a good answer for why you're studying law but interested in IB instead and have good commercial/banking knowledge you will be in just as good a position as anyone else studying a finance related course. There were two of us on my GS spring week who study Law and I met with an analyst in IBD who did Law also - she didn't have to do anything differently because of her degree.

I'd definitely suggest you choosing a different uni to Leeds however, with your grades you should be applying to the likes of Oxbridge/LSE/UCL/Durham/Bristol/Warwick.

Why would you not apply to LSE/UCL/Warwick/Oxbridge?

Where you do undergrad is important...

If not for anything, for the kind of people you're going to be around for 3 years.

I suppose aha- it's a lot more interesting too I suppose. And I may get good grades and that but I'm really not an Oxbridge person- I spend my weekends at pop punk/metal gigs etc and left my private school out of hatred- Oxbridge is my idea of hell solely based on the majority of people that fit well to the stereotype there :'

I'd echo Magnus Taylor's question. If you do a law degree at one of the IB target universities (Oxbridge, LSE, Imperial, Warwick, UCL), you may be able to transfer. However, you've applied (If I can remember correctly - I can't see your post right here) to non-targets. It will be even more difficult for an IB recruiter to see a non-target lawyer as a potential IBD employee. I was speaking to a senior associate at a mid-cap PE firm the other day and he told me that it was unusual for a person with a law degree to be employed in a capacity that doesn't utilise their legal knowledge.

I've just spoken to dad, who, before he retired a couple of years ago, was an MD at a large investment bank. He told me your best shot is to get into a Magic/Silver circle law firm (maybe BigLaw if you want to go to America as well?), get into the corporate M&A department and then, after a number of years - hopefully getting somewhere near partner - transferring to a slightly smaller boutique investment bank where you can join as a senior member and so be able to do some more of the dealmaking.

The thing is, I completely understand what you're saying but the likes of Oxbridge, London uni's, etc. they just don't appeal to me :') The only one of those I'd consider is Warwick & this may be my issue ahaha