Corporate finance offers - please help!!

I've been offered two roles in M&A corporate finance. The salaries being 10k apart but savings are almost the same due to difference in costs too. Can anyone please provide what is good from a long term growth, opportunities and exit opportunities perspective please? Any views would be highly appreciated! Thank you very much.

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Firstly congratulations for receiving both offers - never easy moving across from Audit to Corporate Finance.

Most of this decision will be influenced by which city / geography you would like to develop a Corporate Finance career within. If there are reasons for why you would like to stay / live in Scotland, then Grant Thornton would be the right choice. If you are indifferent to geographies, then Oaklins S&W will provide greater exit opportunities, as London-based advisors (of which there are many), will typically prefer hiring existing London M&A candidates.

Both places will involve a high volume of small cap /; lower mid-market transactions. Oaklins S&W will likely do more cross-border work which would generally be a positive, though will probably have longer hours as London teams on average seem to work slightly longer than regional ones (again a generalisation).

 

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