Sep 06, 2018

Infra PE Analyst -> Traditional PE Associate?

I'm in a bit of an atypical situation from your typical IB analyst -> PE associate recruiting, and was wondering how to go about PE recruitment.

I'm currently a pre-MBA PE analyst at a major infrastructure-focused private equity fund in NYC. While I've enjoyed my experience, I'm starting to get more and more interested in your more traditional, corporate private equity as opposed to infra which has never really been a sector I've been all that interested in. I feel like the work done at the junior level in infra PE isn't really materially different than traditional PE (LBO modeling, DD workstreams, IC decks, etc.), but I'm still worried I'll be perceived as pigeonholed to infra. And with the exception of internships, I've never worked in IBD which is what most PE headhunters are more familiar. I'm also not as familiar with how the associate-level PE recruiting process works since most of the jobs that headhunters that have reached out to me for have been for more ad-hoc infra-related positions, and I don't really have senior analysts I can ask about their PE recruiting process.

So I was wondering in my case, how should I go about recruiting for corporate PE? Should I do it now or wait until after I get promoted to associate? How should I go about positioning my story to headhunters? Which headhunters should I even be reaching out to? And is there anything else I should or shouldn't be doing?

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Not to hijack your thread, but could you go into a little detail about how you got into infra in the first place? It's something I'm trying to break into.

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Bump. Same boat here. Currently working at a top-tier infra PE (with high teens target return) and enjoy the work so far. However just to know my options, how likely would it be to lateral into a corporate PE role? It seems people are not very aware of infra PE and would easily set it aside as super niche pigeonhole. Although I’ve never worked at traditional PE, from talking with my friends who do, it does seem the fundamentals are very similar. I would think that since Infra PE looks for contracted/quasi-contracted top line, we are lighter on the CDD and market dynamics analysis while doing intensive modeling. Welcome any opinions here.

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