<p>My school does not get recruiting from big firms (University of Minnnesota - Twin Cities). We get recruiting by Houlihan Lokey and Lazard which are middle markets. Do you guys think it would be a good idea to do an internship with them and would it help me get into a big firm?</p>
<p>Has anyone worked/interned for any of these companies?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Definitely. Lazard is huge in asset management and a prestigous firm at that. Don't know about Houlihan. Really that is all UMinn gets??</p>
<p>HLHZ has a solid middle market name, a strong restructuring practice on-par with Lazard and Blackstone, and good MM M&A deal flow.</p>
<p>You must be referring to Lazard-Goldsmith, which is the Middle Market arm of Lazard, I do not know much about it; however, it was recently established in 2007 after Lazard bought Goldsmith.</p>
<p>thx for the input...</p>
<p>kmzizzle, yeah that's all we get as far as IB goes... we get many corps tho, gen mills, deloitte, ML, best buy, target... but no IB on those..</p>