Switching from Infra PE to Buyout

Associate here at a large infra player, around 1-year mark with my firm.

Infra turned out extremely political and unmeritocratic for me, and it seems like that in this field only your nationality matters, i.e. whether you are Italian, Spanish, German, French etc. (I am in London). I can see the reasoning behind it because at more senior levels you might need to build political relationships locally given the political nature of the infra assets overall, but unfortunately it played out against me as a non-UK person not speaking any EU language at a native level.

I want to understand if moving from Infra PE to general buyout is realistic or have I missed the train? What other feasible options I might have in terms of other strategies? The thing is that infra modelling is super painful and after that LBO is really a breeze, however the commercial/DD overall is a completely different / market driven skill-set rather than your pure regulated/contracted stuff.

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