I recently received offers for a MM firm in their FIG, Restructuring, Industrials, Healthcare, and Financial Sponsors groups. I want to move to PE after my analyst stint, which of these is the best to do that?
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Sponsors is the move.
Highly disagree depending on the MM. At the MM I worked at, sponsors had bad exits because they did basically not modeling - industry groups did all the modeling.
Good caveat. The definition of Sponsors v. LevFin is aqueous. Typically, though, one of the two will be modeling-intensive and other won't.
Depends on the strength of their group and your preference but without knowing those I would go with Sponsors or Industrials
I would go with industrials
Bit of context why so many are saying industrials: Less cap mkts work, more sponsor to sponsor deals than other industry groups
Out of curiosity, why isn't anyone saying restructuring? I thought rx provides really heavy modeling/technical knowledge and you can move to a distressed fund as well, no?
Want to avoid pidgeon-holing yourself
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