2026 - Investment Banking - Coverage & Advisory - Summer Internship - London

Who we are

Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning over 30 countries. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through our three business divisions: Retail, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking) and Investment Management.

Driven by the insights of some 26,000 people worldwide, we put our clients at the centre of everything we do, delivering unparalleled access to, from and within Asia.

Investment Banking overview:

Nomura's Investment Banking Division provides advisory and capital-raising solutions to corporations, financial institutions, governments and public-sector organizations around the world. Our global teams act as geographic, product and industry specialists.  We connect clients directly to Asia, accessing deep pools of liquidity and dynamic growth markets.

In EMEA, we operate across targeted industry sectors and in most major European countries to deliver strategic advice to clients wishing to acquire, combine or sell businesses or looking for financing and risk management solutions.

Programme overview:

We offer a nine-week Summer Internship for penultimate and final year students interested in learning about the banking business. The programme will provide you with the opportunity to develop your technical knowledge, gain valuable on-the-job training, understand our culture and create new networks.

The first week of the internship is class-room based training which is provided to enhance your key technical skills and will enable you to perform on the desk during the internship. Following the training week, you will join one of our Sector Teams for the remaining of the internship and complete tasks at a similar level of a first year Analyst. At the end of the internship, strong performers will receive offers to join our Graduate Programme.

Additional sessions during the internship include soft skill sessions, product presentations, business overviews as well as social events.

Coverage & Advisory Teams

Nomura's Coverage & Advisory teams identify and analyse deal opportunities and manage client relationships across sectors and key geographies teams to include the following:

• Consumer – Provides advisory and financing services to a wide range of consumer facing businesses. Established base of both global mega-caps and smaller but ambitious corporate clients
• Debt Advisory - Fast growing team providing independent advice to companies and private equity sponsors on structuring, raising and refinancing debt. The team advises clients across a broad range of transactions including buyside acquisition financing, refinancing, growth financing, recapitalization, project financing, ratings advisory and more. Our clients span all the sector verticals that Nomura covers, however, the team has a strong focus on transactions within Greentech Infrastructure and Industrial's.
• Equity Advisory – Provides strategic and financial advisory services to clients on equity capital transactions across both the private and public markets. Our client base ranges from growth to mature private and listed companies across sectors and geographies. Our product offering is focused on Equity Private Placements and Advisory Services in ECM transactions (IPOs, ABBs, Rights Issues).
• Financial Institutions Group – Providing advisory and financing services to a wide range of clients across the UK, France/Benelux, Iberia, Italy, Greece, and DACH. Our clients span traditional FIG institutions like banks and insurers, alongside insurance brokers, wealth/asset managers, trust/corporate services and other diversified financials
• Financial Sponsors – Focusing on covering Financial Sponsor and Alternative Investment clients, including a broad range of Private Equity funds, Sovereign Wealth funds and Pension funds.
• Greece/CEE – Focused on originating and executing projects for clients in these core geographies, working across all Nomura sectors and financial products. Clients include corporates, financial institutions, financial sponsors as well as government and government related entities.
• Greentech, Industrials and Infrastructure – A cornerstone team in the EMEA IBD providing advisory and financing solutions across ten dynamic verticals among which: Low Carbon Infrastructure, Environmental Services & Technologies, Advanced Transportation, Renewable Energy Value Chain, AgTech & Sustainable Food and Digital Infrastructure. A well-established franchise highly regarded in the industry with an exceptional track record of originating and executing high profile transactions.
• Healthcare – Growing team with in depth industry expertise built through advising both Corporate and Financial Sponsor clients on acquisitions shaping the industry. In addition to M&A, the team has a track record of providing Leveraged Finance and Risk Solutions within a broad range of subsectors, including specialty pharma, biotechnology, medical technology, animal health and healthcare services.
• M&A – Focusing on the origination and live deal execution of EMEA and cross-border transactions, as well as incorporating the UK and Ireland country team. The team has a deep cross-sector expertise, with exposure to all industry and product teams. Additionally, the team functions as an M&A centre of excellence for deal valuation, structuring, tactics & negotiations, strategic advice and more.
• Nordic – Focuses on providing advisory services to, and maintaining relationships with, key Nordic corporates, financial sponsors and various Government ministries. In addition, the Nordic team works closely with Nomura's industry and products teams on leverage finance and Risk Management Solutions.
• Secondary Advisory – A fast-growing team advising financial sponsors and their investors on various types of private capital transactions, including GP-led and LP-led secondary processes, co-investments, GP stake solutions and corporate spin-outs of captive investment platforms. The team works closely with industry and geographical coverage teams, aiding in the origination and execution of various secondary and other private capital transactions, particularly (but not exclusively) within Greentech sectors across sustainable energy and low-carbon infrastructure.
• Technology, Media & Services – Provides advisory and financing services to Corporate and Financial Sponsor clients across a wide range sub verticals within the Technology, Media and Services industries.

What are we looking for?

At Nomura our goal is to attract and develop exceptionally talented people who share our passion for individual excellence and our commitment to teamwork. We recruit students with a high level of academic and extra-curricular achievement, who will be able to withstand the rigors of a rapidly changing, demanding but ultimately rewarding environment.

To apply to this role, you should be in your final or penultimate year at university.

Fluency in English is essential.

How to apply

Please note that you can only submit one application per recruitment year (Sept 2025 – Aug 2026) and all applications must be submitted online via 

To apply for a 2026 Summer Internship position, candidates should be available for full time employment in July 2026 or 2027. We accept applications for this programme from penultimate year students (graduating 2025) and final year students graduating 2026.

Deadline dates & Visa sponsorship 

Application Deadline: 1st December 2025

We recruit on a rolling basis and encourage applicants to apply early. Please note Nomura do accept and consider applications from overseas students from outside the UK and will provide support and assistance with the visa application process as best we can.

For further information about Nomura, please visit 

Diversity & Inclusion

Nomura is committed to an employment policy of equal opportunities, and is fundamentally opposed to any less favourable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, colour, nationality, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender or sexual orientation. If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Right to Work

The UK Government have taken steps to reduce net migration to the UK by limiting the number of overseas workers from outside the EEA coming to the UK for employment. Please note that whilst we are able to consider applications from overseas workers from outside the EEA (who require a Tier 2 (General) visa) we can only employ them if we can provide evidence that there are no other suitable candidates for this vacancy from inside the EEA. Please contact us if you are visiting our offices and require any form of personal assistance or physical adaptations to be provided for your appointment.  A member of staff will be happy to help.