Sponsor Finance / FinCo / Direct Lending to PE?

Thoughts on getting into PE from one of the above routes? Examples of firms would be Antares Capital / Jefferies Finance / Ares / Madison? For context, I'm weighing an offer from one of these shops against a lower MM IB offer.

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