Curious if anyone has done this and if experienced professionals can chime in on how doable this is. I've been working in growth equity at one of the 3 shops above for 2.5 years now, and starting to think about the next steps. Did a standard 2-3 year IB stint before this role. My deal experience consists of mostly $50M - $500M equity checks on growth deals + consortium-led LBO buyouts that most people would have heard of - focusing mainly on enterprise software and general tech.
I spend most of my time on modeling and diligence with very little sourcing (to my surprise large cap growth names have extremely complicated models and I've gotten really solid exposure there) so feel comfortable on modeling, but can definitely see an LBO fund ding me for not having enough PortCo experience (we are definitely less involved given a sizable portion of our deals are minority). We still get involved in our portcos, but just wouldn't be as active as an LBO guy would is my guess.
What are some tips for me? Would the traditional HHs be helpful? Any help would be much appreciated. Would ideally like to avoid Bschool and take a 2nd year or senior associate role at an MM/UMM LBO fund after this and build a career there.
