Accept this buyside offer?

I've been at at a valuation shop like Duff & phelps or the big 4 for about 8 months and 3 months for my internship before hand. I have considerable goodwill with my current valuation team and think I could make a career out of it easily, though I want to get into the buyside at some point, and expect to get an offer from a buyside shop I have been talking with in their acquisitions department soon (had finals and went well). I would have to start in a month. I would probably get to see 2-3 deals close and will work on those in the next two years, and will have to go to business school afterwards (can't move up in the company, small shop). Any advice on whether to take this?

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Not much information here, but:

-Goodwill at Duff & Phelps/Big 4 is basically worthless -> neither's terribly well respected, and is not directly related to your LT objectives -> getting back in to valuation should not be difficult in any case -You want to go to the buyside - is there a realistic chance of you getting a better option? If this is a chop-shop, then I'd see why you'd avoid it, but it sounds from your vague description like a decent place

I'd take it.

 

Cool - that was very helpful, and I guess I could make some goodwill wherever I look at...

Regarding better options, I very highly doubt I have a shot competing with bankers for the typical highly sought-after PE jobs, but some other smaller PE shops have given me good looks. That said, my current offer is probably as good as it gets.

I'm not sure what you mean by chop-shop, but this is a legit place from what I know, >$5 billion AUM though there are only ~20 people in their office.

 

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