LevFin to PE
Currently working in LevFin at a Japanese bank (Mizuho, Nomura, MUFG, SMBC). What are the chances of getting into PE? Any insight is appreciated?
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Typically, you’d want to work at a more established and higher quality group to increase your chances of getting into PE.
Would recommend lateraling to a US group if you can. Comp will likely be better there as well.
Agree with guy above. Don't stay with these groups if your goal is getting into PE or getting good deal experience.
What about those groups placement to private credit?
This is going to be blunt, but lev fin at those groups don’t do shit compared to prestigious BB lev fin groups. PE is impossible. PC, yes it’s possible but still highly unlikely unless you’re joining an equally shitty PC fund.
Ask yourself, how many deals did your group lead-left? If not your group, what about firm wide?
My suggestion if I were you would be to lateral to a better bank or try applying to MUFG’s PC team - they are equally crap but atleast you get “investing” experience.
Lol, I understand they're pretty shit...I'm not really interested in PE anyway, so that doesn't matter. What kind of shitty debt fund those analysts place into？(Just tryna explore some options here
You'd be far better off at any middle market than these groups, holds true for non-lev fin groups as well.
Not prestigious enough sorry
Personally think you can get into a MM PE fund. Have seen analysts from Japanese banks place over the years but I agree with the comments above that it is probably less common.
The bigger concern in my opinion is whether you are developing the skills to hit the ground running coming from a lower tier balance sheet bank. To the extent your project experience is lacking I would lateral to a strong middle market M&A platform or BB and recruit from there.
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