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Start by introducing yourself

You need to start with an introductory paragraph about yourself, says Feldman. This needs to be brief: distill who you are into a few short sentences. “Provide a high level background of your academic and relevant job experience,” says Feldman.

“You can say that you are a top rated analyst who has worked on the healthcare team of X bank and that you have Y years of experience working on deals worth between $Am-$Bm,” says Andy Pringle at Circle Square Recruitment in London.

Why you?

The second-paragraph is the all-important one. Here, you need to persuade the bank you’re applying to that you’re the right person for the job.

If you’re a graduate who’s never worked in M&A before, Pringle says you’ll need to use this section to emphasize your mathematical skills and academic achievements. If you’ve worked in M&A already, this is where you can summarize the deals you’ve worked on.

“With an M&A cover letter, include a figure that demonstrates total amount of deals involved in, combined notional value, role served and cumulative fees received,” says Mary De Luca at Preferred Resume, a Wall Street application specialist. “I don’t recommend including names of deals to protect proprietary information,” she adds.

What if you’ve worked on a lot of deals that came to nothing? Clearly you can’t mention the names of companies involved, but Pringle says you can still allude to them. “There’s nothing wrong with saying that you worked on a deal involving a US conglomerate with $10bn of turnover which was looking to acquire a US conglomerate with $5bn of turnover, but the deal fell at the final stage.”