Reading time: 3 minsAt Greenhill, interns are contributors on live transactions from week one. The flat structure, small teams, and direct MD access make for a summer that’s genuinely different.
Hear from Daisy, as she walks you through a typical day as a Greenhill Summer Analyst.
9:00 AM: Before anything else, you sit down and map out the day. Across live deals, new pitches, and ongoing workstreams, there’s always a lot moving at once — and you’ll be crossing things off that list all day.
9:30 AM: You join the first client call of the day alongside your deal team — you’re sitting in as your MDs discuss negotiation strategy with the client and navigate the kind of high-stakes dialogue that you simply can’t learn from a textbook. You take detailed notes throughout, capturing key discussion points, open questions, and action items.
10:30 AM: You move into the active workstreams on a live deal. This might mean managing Q&A in the Virtual Data Room, flagging key diligence items, and supporting valuation analysis, including tracking multiple movements to frame market context.
11:00 AM: Mid-morning, you get staffed on a new pitch. A senior analyst or associate sits down with you and walks you through the background. From there, it’s over to you. You read through broker research notes, dig into the company’s financials and competitive positioning, and start building your own understanding of the business from the ground up.
12:30 PM: You break for lunch with the rest of the intern class. Greenhill’s programme is deliberately small, and the friendships you build here tend to last well beyond the summer. It’s a tight community, and that’s something you’ll feel from the very first week.
1:00 PM: The afternoon starts with building out market slides, running the CCAs, and scrubbing transaction precedents. A senior analyst will work through it with you, explaining not just what to do but why: how to think about which comps are truly comparable, and how to adjust for outliers.
2:30 PM: You head out with the healthcare MD for a coffee chat. You might talk about how they’re thinking about a live deal, how the market has shifted over the past year, or what the career looks like five years in. Greenhill’s flat structure makes these moments genuinely accessible. MDs here aren’t distant figures you catch briefly in a meeting room — they know your name, they’re interested in how you’re getting on, and they’ll give you honest, useful perspective if you ask for it.
3:30 PM: You return to your desk and pick up where you left off on the pitch materials. You work on the company overview slides and help to build a broker consensus for the DCF valuation. You’re not working in isolation either: you’re pulling information across the team, coordinating with colleagues on the financing team to make sure all the moving parts of the deliverable come together.
7:00 PM: You grab dinner and wait for the MD’s comments to come back. You then work through the feedback carefully, refining slides, and sharpening the language. Deal timelines don’t follow a 9-to-5 schedule, but the work feels purposeful - you know exactly where these materials are going, you’ve seen how the MD will use them in front of a client, and you understand why each revision matters.
11:00 PM: You do a final pass on everything and send it across for review. You glance at your to-do list from this morning. Most things are crossed off. The ones that aren’t are already on tomorrow’s list. You close the laptop. It’s been a full day.