Ardea Partners vs Evercore PCA

I received offers from both firms for SA24, and can’t decide which to take.

I really don’t enjoy FIG and enjoy secondaries, so I’m leaning towards Evercore. I also enjoyed my interactions with the Evercore team more and culture seems better.

I am just thinking overall what would be a better choice in terms of long-term comp, brand name, and experience. Thank you!

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Just curious why are you interested in secondaries in specific? Isn’t it more specialized than FIG (and almost a sub-vertical of FIG given you spend most of time with alts clients)?

From my understanding Ardea has better pay / hour / culture, but Evercore has better brand name and exit opportunities. Deal flow wise both are strong, but Ardea focuses on insurance and asset / wealth management, so if you want to do secondaries then go with Evercore.

 

I just really don’t want to work on insurance companies or banks all day

I’d rather work with cool opportunities to structure deals in unique ways and with the best sponsors

Ardea does have better pay but are you sure about hours / culture?

 

Does Ardea really have better pay though? Hard to be 230k TC as an analyst 

 

Anonymous Monkey

I received offers from both firms for SA24, and can't decide which to take.

I really don't enjoy FIG and enjoy secondaries, so I'm leaning towards Evercore. I also enjoyed my interactions with the Evercore team more and culture seems better.

I am just thinking overall what would be a better choice in terms of long-term comp, brand name, and experience. Thank you!

Hey, when did you receive the offer? Did you have a superday on thursday ?

 

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