Moving from P&U IB to Corp Dev

Hi, ignore my title, but I am a 2nd year analyst in P&U IB. I am doing alright here, but I want to exit banking. Not many PE buyside opps active ATM, so I am looking at corp dev too. There's a Canadian based company Northland Power looking to hire. Should I try recruiting for their corp dev and then try to exit PE a couple of years down the road? How could the move be perceived? 

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Thank you for your response! Appreciate you responding as going by your posts, you appear to be an experienced practitioner. Not a ton of hiring going on in Canada and UK which is where I am looking. Since you've been in the industry for some time, can I please ask you to expand on what'd you consider large cap infra funds that would be less open to ppl like me? 

 
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