Healthcare Banking

Healthcare Banking Healthcare investment banking is red hot in 2009 and many firms are hiring. Examples of recent multibillion dollar deals include the Pfizer bid for Wyeth, the Roche bid for Genentech, the Merck bid for Schering-Plough and the Gilead bid for CV Therapeutics. Healthcare is seeing record deal volume and the need for talent in this area is likely to grow for the long term. The recent bonus brouhaha only improves the opportunity to break in. If you have good sector knowledge or a willingness to work hard and learn, this can be a good field to enter. Healthcare as a sector is defensive, high growth and ever more important. Some of the best firms are boutiques such as Leerink Swann and Lazard. The bulge firms are also major players and the top banks have been JP Morgan, Citigroup, Goldman and Credit Suisse.