HEC Paris

day one: modelling debt structures, assessing lender risk, and translating credit risk into pricing. Its fast pace and early responsibility will help me develop judgment early. In the medium term, I look forward to moving into private equity, focusing on roles combining deal evaluation with operational exposure at mid-market or growth-oriented funds. The exposure I'll gain in leveraged finance, particularly in structuring and credit assessment, will prepare me for that step and help me build relationships with sponsors. Ultimately, I hope to work within a PE fund's portfolio-operations team, focusing on growth strategy and helping portfolio companies scale. My undergraduate coursework in statistics, M&A, and financial management built a strong quantitative foundation, which I applied while leading my university's investment board through company analyses and pitches. At Company A (a financial-services analytics firm), I strengthened this by supporting PE and banking clients on live deals, building LBO models, evaluating debt structures, assessing repayment capacity, and preparing IC materials. The Corporate Finance specialisation at HEC is the logical next step. Modules like Private Equity & LBO, Financial Modelling, M&A, and Fixed Income will strengthen my expertise in valuation, debt instruments, and PE transactions. Given the competitive nature of LevFin recruiting, I'll target credit-advisory and structured-finance roles as my Plan B, which sit close to the same sponsor-lender ecosystem and position me for an eventual move to the buy side.