MF PE to Law School?
Saw an associate on the investment team recently made this move. Ivy undergraduate, started their career at a BB IB, then MF PE (think BX, KKR, APO, and so forth), and now attending a T3 law school (Yale, Stanford, Harvard). Stand-alone JD program, no JD/MBA. It made me ponder what would be a good reason for someone with this background to pursue law school over business school. Others who I saw with a similar background, for the most part, eventually returned to finance after law school, which made me question why pursue law school in the first place.
Are there any niche unicorn opportunities outside of BigLaw in government or public interest that a banking and MF PE stint could provide, if any? Is a T3 law school network more valuable than a H/S business school network?
Let me know what you all think!
Why don’t you send him a note on LinkedIn and say you are interested for whatever reason and see if he will take a brief call with you?
I don’t know them personally — but perhaps I will. Would like to know everyone else’s opinion first!
Called “cold-email” and this industry is built on it. Guy/girl is a normal human being… I might know them
I'd wager there are more stability and a step-lock progression in terms of position/comp in Big-Law versus Banking. All industries are taking a hit with the current economic environment, so perhaps the individual is thinking that there are more long-term stability and predictability versus banking.
Maybe they’ll be back to finance after law school. Checks the grad school box of PE as well. It’s possible they always wanted to be a lawyer and figured doing that instead of an MBA. Many possibilities lol
Don’t know why this question is getting so much MS, but I’d imagine a law degree on top of IB/MFPE experience could be valuable in opening doors to certain areas of investing - activist, distressed, restructuring, merger arb, etc. You see a lot of JD/MBAs in that space, so maybe they’ll end up doing an MBA at their graduate institution as well.
I'm like...decently sure this person is actually me (pretty much every detail checks out). If it is, and you've LinkedIn stalked me, shoot me a DM on that platform and I'll be sure to respond. To those rubbernecking, some of the details as to motive check out and some others (especially with the level of specificity re: investing area) are wide of the mark or more crystallized than I actually planned out.
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