LV3 requirements for country coverage ?

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Hi all,

I am currently studying Spanish and am fairly proficient (for example I can watch anything with relative ease on Netflix but lack a bit on vocabulary and grammar due to lack of practice for several years, and can read about any article as I can guess most unknown words from French which I speak natively). I believe I can reach a limited working proficiency but becoming 100% bilingual would be hard without living in Spain/LATAM.

How good do you need to be in Spanish to cover the Spanish market and possibly LATAM out of a London-based fund?

Tamara_S · Accepted Answer

To answer your last question, I guess most associates should get involved in legal matters already at their level. You always need to strive to work slightly above your level to be promotion-ready!

No, not all coverage hires were native speakers. We had native Italians covering Spain too and we even had a non-native (but fluent) Japanese speaker covering Japan. Some Dutch people speak 5- 6 languages fluently and can cover different European markets.

Tamara_S · Answer

Not a Spanish coverage but I speak several other languages, so in case my 2 cents are useful.

Whenever our private equity fund (EUR 20bn AuM) was looking to hire someone with knowledge of a specific language, it typically meant an ability to negotiate PE legal documents in that language.

Having said that, if you are a native French speaker and speak Spanish already, perhaps the best way to improve your business Spanish would be to read business papers in Spanish, follow Spanish private equity market or specific industry you want to cover on Twitter in Spanish, read PE publications in Spanish

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