Investment Banking - Summer Internship

Investment Banking overview:

Nomura’s Investment Banking Division provides advisory and capital-raising solutions to corporations, financial institutions, governments and public-sector organizations around the world. Our global teams act as geographic, product and industry specialists. We connect clients directly to Asia, accessing deep pools of liquidity and dynamic growth markets.

In EMEA, we operate across targeted industry sectors and in most major European countries to deliver strategic advice to clients wishing to acquire, combine or sell businesses or looking for financing and risk management solutions.

Investment Banking Internship overview:

We offer a nine-week paid Summer Internship in London for penultimate and final year students interested in learning about the banking business. You'll have the opportunity to develop your technical knowledge, gain valuable on-the-job training, understand our culture and create new networks, with a very competitive salary.

The first week of the Investment Banking internship is class-room based training which is provided to enhance your key technical skills. You will then join one of our Sector Teams for the remaining of the internship and complete tasks at a similar level of a first year Analyst. At the end, strong performers will receive offers to join our Graduate Programme in London.

Additional sessions during the Investment Banking internship include soft skill sessions, product presentations, business overviews as well as social events.

Sector Teams:

Nomura’s Sector Teams identify and analyse deal opportunities and manage client relationships across sectors and key geographies teams to include the following:

• Greece/CEE – Focused on originating and executing projects for clients in these core geographies, working across all Nomura sectors and financial products. Clients include corporates, financial institutions, financial sponsors as well as government and government related entities
• Consumer – Provides advisory and financing services to a wide range of consumer facing businesses. Established base of both global mega-caps and smaller but ambitious corporate clients  
• Debt Advisory - Focused on providing independent debt advice on M&A, brownfield and greenfield financing situations. Natural synergies with GII however sector agnostic with a focus on providing the best advice for the client through origination, structuring and execution. Debt advisory is highly active across EMEA and North America encompassing a wide spectrum of sectors including new technologies such as SAF and Hydrogen as first of a kind financing's
• Equity Advisory – Nomura is the only global investment bank providing independent equity advisory services. We provide clients with advisory and support in executing equity-related transactions including IPO’s, Rights Issues, Accelerated Bookbuildings, Private Placements and Equity-Linked Products
• Financial Institutions Group – Focus on coverage and execution for a wide range of clients across the UK, France/Benelux, Iberia, Italy, and Greece. Our clients span traditional FIG institutions like banks and insurers, and wealth/asset managers, trust/corporate services and other diversified financials
• Financial Sponsors – Focusing on covering Financial Sponsor and Alternative Investment clients, including a broad range of Private Equity funds, Sovereign Wealth funds and Pension funds
• Greentech, Industrials and Infrastructure - A cornerstone team in the EMEA IBD providing advisory and financing solutions across ten dynamic verticals among which: Low Carbon Infrastructure, Environmental Services & Technologies, Advanced Transportation, Renewable Energy Value Chain, AgTech & Sustainable Food and Digital Infrastructure. A well-established franchise highly regarded in the industry with an exceptional track record of originating and executing high profile transactions
• Healthcare – Growing team with in depth industry expertise built through advising both Corporate and Financial Sponsor clients on acquisitions shaping the industry. In addition to M&A, the team has a track record of providing Leveraged Finance and Risk Solutions within a broad range of subsectors, including specialty pharma, biotechnology, medical technology, animal health and healthcare services
• M&A– Focusing on the execution and origination of domestic EMEA and cross-border transactions, with exposure to all industry and country teams
• Nordic– Focuses on providing advisory services to, and maintaining relationships with, key Nordic corporates, financial sponsors and various Government ministries. In addition, the Nordic team works closely with Nomura’s industry and products teams on leverage finance and Risk Management Solutions
• Secondary Advisory – A fast-growing team advising financial sponsors and their investors on various types of private capital transactions, including GP-led and LP-led secondary processes, co-investments, GP stake solutions and corporate spin-outs of captive investment platforms. The team works closely with industry and geographical coverage teams, aiding in the origination and execution of various secondary and other private capital transactions, particularly (but not exclusively) within Greentech sectors across sustainable energy and low-carbon infrastructure.
• Technology, Media & Services – Provides advisory and financing services to Corporate and Financial Sponsor clients across a wide range sub verticals within the Technology, Media and Services industries

What are we looking for?

At Nomura our goal is to attract and develop exceptionally talented people who share our passion for individual excellence and our commitment to teamwork. We recruit students with a high level of academic and extra-curricular achievement, who will be able to withstand the rigours of a rapidly changing, demanding but ultimately rewarding environment.

To apply to this Investment Banking internship role, you should be in your final or penultimate year at university. Fluency in English is essential.

How to apply - Investment Banking Internship

Please note that you can only submit one application per recruitment year (Sept 2024 – Aug 2025) and all applications must be submitted online via www.nomura.com/careers

To apply for a 2025 Summer Internship position, candidates should be available for full time employment in July 2025 or 2026. We accept applications for this programme from penultimate year students (graduating 2026) and final year students graduating 2025.

Deadline dates & visa sponsorship 

Application deadline: 1st December 2024

We recruit on a rolling basis and encourage applicants to apply early. Please note, Nomura do accept and consider applications from overseas students from outside the UK and will provide support and assistance with the visa application process as best we can.

Diversity & inclusion

Nomura is committed to an employment policy of equal opportunities, and is fundamentally opposed to any less favourable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, colour, nationality, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender or sexual orientation. If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Right to work

The UK Government have taken steps to reduce net migration to the UK by limiting the number of overseas workers from outside the EEA coming to the UK for employment. Please note that whilst we are able to consider applications from overseas workers from outside the EEA (who require a Tier 2 (General) visa) we can only employ them if we can provide evidence that there are no other suitable candidates for this vacancy from inside the EEA. Please contact us if you are visiting our offices and require any form of personal assistance or physical adaptations to be provided for your appointment.  A member of staff will be happy to help.