Sell me on Special Sits vs. LBOs

Hi all, I have a pretty unique opportunity to do either: 1. Special situations with a debt focus (distressed debt, Mezz, DIP financing etc.), 2. Vanilla LBOs.

I previously accepted a role to do LBOs however the fund is also launching a special sits group and they asked if I was interested.

My background is non-IB and to be honest, I never really thought about doing distressed debt but the group seems super interesting. I’d love to hear about: 1. Lifestyle 2. Comp 3. Career progression

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