How difficult is it to lateral between secondaries firms?

How difficult would it be to lateral into an associate position from a middle market secondaries shop to the top players like Ardian, BX SP, Coller Capital, etc. Would you have an edge over investment banking analysts since you have direct work experience?

Edit: currently attend a non-ivy top target school (Ross, Haas, Stern, Georgetown, etc.)

Additionally, any insight on how large secondaries fund sizes are in LMM, MM, UMM, and MF? Thanks

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