How many deals do you close a year?
Wrapping up my 1st year and we are a small shop.
Closed 1 platform
Chased 1-2 other platforms and 1-2 add-ons but went nowhere
Is this typical?
Feel like I am not getting enough experience
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I’ve closed 1 platform over 2 years; concentrated portfolio with ~8 investments and ~5 associates, so it’s fine. Still worked like a dog with that deal, others, and lots of portco Shit. People emphasize # of deals closed too much. As long as you’re actively learning (even on failed pursuits) and re-applying what you learn, still a good path to promotion or good lateral. Closing deals as a junior is luck of the draw just like in banking.
Same thoughts as the person above as the # being more luck of the draw. Similar to you I've closed 1 platform in my first year, have ran pretty hard on 3 - 4 that we didn't end up winning and looked closely at a few add ons which didn't pan out. Nothing I really could've done which would've resulted in more closed, so not losing sleep over it.
Average of 0.6 per year
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2 platform in year 1 and 2 platform in year 2 for me. Relatively high volume overall for our fund (~7-8 associates per class). Mainly luck. A handful of people will end up with 0 platform deals closed in two years. Still plenty of reps to go around.
One platform per year is just fine and in some cases quite good. Part of it depends on market conditions. I was a PE associate from 2009 - 2011 and did 1 platform, 3 bolt-ons, and 1 sale. I considered this quite fortunate when a lot of my peers did 0 platforms in this period.
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