We Are Looking For More Interns

We are actively seeking knowledgeable and experienced finance interns to perform industry-specific research followed by individual research summaries in the form of online copywriting for blogs, whitepapers and promotional articles for the company’s several high profile web properties. This is an unpaid position. However, the level of commitment is highly flexible and can work within the student’s personal schedule.

It is expected the student will commit to research and write a single article ranging between 1,000 and 2,000 words weekly. Depending on the depth of the research required for each article, the intern is likely to spend between 5 and 10 hours per week. The material is expected to be extremely high quality, completely unique, free of error and/or plagiarism and able to pass FINRA compliance review. The company’s websites receive nearly a thousand unique website visitors daily and carry a distinctive approach to both deal sourcing and deal origination.

The firm combines traditional investment banking with new JOBS Act rules of 506(c), Regulation A+ and Title III crowdfunding to source capital more cheaply and efficiently from a broader audience of retail and institutional investors. The firm also uses unique strategies to garner leads from the internet. In fact, over 50% of the company’s revenue has currently been derived from web-based leads. Each article posted on the company’s various sites will be published under the name of the intern, allowing the intern to gain immediate exposure and notoriety to a broad audience, composed of thousands of email subscribers and new, unique daily visitors.

Why This Internship Is Different

Most finance internships place students in a support role—building slide decks, running comps, or shadowing senior bankers. This program is built around independent research and published output. Each piece an intern writes is reviewed for accuracy and FINRA compliance, then published under the intern’s byline across high-traffic investment banking and capital markets platforms. For students who want a portfolio of real, publicly visible work—not just a bullet point on a resume—that distinction matters.

The topics interns cover span the full range of what an investment banking practice touches: industry M&A trends, valuation frameworks, capital markets dynamics, deal structure, and sector-specific research. A student who completes a semester-long engagement will have written substantively about subjects that practitioners discuss daily, and will have done so in a format that is indexed, read, and cited.

What the Work Looks Like

A typical weekly assignment might involve researching recent M&A activity in a specific vertical—healthcare technology, business services, or industrial manufacturing, for example—and synthesizing publicly available data into a 1,200-word analysis that is accurate, readable, and compliant. Interns are expected to understand the difference between educational commentary and individualized investment advice, and to write accordingly. Articles must be sourced from credible primary and secondary sources and must clearly distinguish between documented facts and editorial analysis.

The compliance bar is intentionally high. All content must pass FINRA review before publication, which means interns develop an early understanding of how regulated firms communicate publicly—a skill that is genuinely transferable to careers in investment banking, equity research, asset management, and financial journalism.

What You Will Learn

• Transaction literacy: How deals are structured, how buyers and sellers position themselves, and how advisors run sell-side or buy-side processes.
• Valuation fundamentals: How practitioners think about enterprise value, EBITDA multiples, discounted cash flow, and asset-based approaches across different industries.
• Capital markets context: How equity financing and debt markets interact with M&A activity, and how macro conditions affect deal volume and pricing.
• Compliance and communication: How to write accurately and persuasively within the constraints of regulated financial communication.
• Research methodology: How to find, evaluate, and synthesize primary sources into original analysis.

Who We Are Looking For

Ideal candidates are undergraduate or graduate students in finance, economics, accounting, or a related field who have a demonstrated ability to write clearly and analytically. Prior coursework in corporate finance or financial accounting is helpful. Intellectual curiosity, attention to detail, and the discipline to produce polished work independently are more important than any specific credential.

Chosen candidates will work with company Director Nate Nead to ensure articles remain compliant and relevant to the intended audience. Interested applicants are encouraged to visit and complete the form on the InvestmentBank.com Internships Page. Candidates are asked to submit an article on a finance-related subject of their choosing with a length of between 1,000 and 2,000 words.

If you are a practitioner rather than a student and want to understand how we think about business value and exits, our articles on true corporate value drivers and common mistakes entrepreneurs make when pursuing an exit offer a practitioner’s perspective on the same topics our interns research.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this internship available to graduate students, or only undergraduates?

Both are welcome. Graduate students in MBA or finance programs often bring deeper quantitative backgrounds and may be assigned more technically complex research topics. The commitment level and format of the engagement are the same regardless of degree program.

Will my articles be edited before publication?

Yes. Every article is reviewed by a senior team member for accuracy, tone, and FINRA compliance before it is published. Interns receive feedback on each submission, which is itself a meaningful learning experience. The goal is to publish work that is genuinely useful to practitioners and business owners, not to pad a content calendar.

Can this internship be used for academic credit?

That depends on your institution’s requirements. We are happy to provide documentation of your participation, the articles you published, and the hours you contributed. Whether a particular program accepts that for credit is a question your academic department would need to answer.