Robey Warshaw was set up in London in 2013 by Simon Robey and Simon Warshaw, two very senior bankers from Morgan Stanley and UBS. It has a handful of partners and a small team, and advises on some of the biggest UK deals. George Osborne, the former Chancellor, later became a partner.
The honest answer
Most students won't get in straight from university, and it may not hire undergraduates at all in a given year. A firm this small doesn't run a graduate scheme the way a bank does. When it does take juniors, they're often people who've already trained elsewhere.
So the realistic route is:
- Get into a bulge bracket or an elite boutique like Rothschild, Lazard or Evercore.
- Spend two or three years doing excellent M&A work.
- Then look at firms like Robey Warshaw and Zaoui & Co.
If you still want to try now
A short, sharp email to the firm, with a one-page CV, isn't a bad idea. Keep it to five lines: who you are, what you've done in finance, why this firm specifically. If your CV has a real M&A internship on it, that's what might get it read.