Campbell Lutyens

Both feed the same three business lines.

• Graduate Programme: opens with a two-week training programme in London for the international cohort, covering primary placement, secondary advisory and GP capital advisory plus the regulatory exams; graduates are then "integrated directly into one of our three teams: Primaries, Secondaries, or GP Capital Advisory" and start on live mandates.
• Eligibility: Bachelor's with a minimum 2:1 (or Master's) in Finance/Economics, Science or Humanities, plus the firm's stated "minimum 2-6 months experience gained within financial services (ideally private equity or M&A)".

The prior-experience requirement is the distinctive filter: this is not a standing graduate scheme open to any final-year student. A candidate without a relevant summer internship is effectively out of contention, so the realistic path is internship-first, then the Graduate Programme the cycle after.

The firm runs 15 offices across London (HQ), Paris, Munich, New York, Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, Salt Lake City, Dubai, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore and Tokyo, with more than 300 professionals across 40+ nationalities.

The work shape is what an applicant is choosing here, not just the brand: a graduate seat at Campbell Lutyens is fundraising execution and secondary-market deal advisory, not direct investing. For a candidate weighing this against a buy-side analyst role at a fund manager, the trade is breadth across hundreds of GP relationships and a transactional cadence on the placement and secondary side, against the portfolio-investing reps you would build elsewhere.