Corporate M&A or PE?
Hi all,I currently work for an independent sponsor and have interviewed for a PE position and a public company M&A position. Just want to know if you were in my shoes, which career path you would choose and why?Also, any thoughts on corporate M&A bonus and total comp?Appreciated!
The corporate M&A role is going to be remote.
Personally would go for PE. Corporate M&A may be narrow / investing potentially overshadowed by corporate objectives.
But the M&A role is going to be remote forever. Don’t want to go back to office. Lol
Is corporate m&a just m&a? Not familiar with the term, and I ask because when people say corporate private equity that just means PE as how most people know it, to differentiate from something like real estate private equity
Yes, M&A only. This corporate M&A role can be remote. The PE role is at a buyout fund and needs to be on site later this year.
I believe the implication here is corporate development, ie the in-house M&A team at a company (different from when people say corporate PE, which is usually to distinguish from REPE, infra, etc)
Ah okay, makes sense.
Yes that is correct. An in-house M&A team in a public company.
I wouldn’t switch industries just for a perk (i.e., working from home) - if you want to do PE, do PE (and CorpDev opportunities should be open to you later); if you want to do CorpDev, do it (PE will be harder, but not impossible, later)
I’m in PE, so biased, but I prefer the higher comp, more flexible mandate, future optionality, and greater control of the process (not subject to other business units). It’s important to me to be somewhere where my skillset is the revenue driver - investing is ancillary to most operating businesses, but it’s the key value driver at a fund (intuitively)
Devil’s advocate, CorpDev can have better WLB, more strategic / long-term outlooks, feeling of contributing to something beyond financial returns, and potentially access to transfer internally to more operational or cross-functional roles if that appeals to you
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