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am guessing long term you want m&a so take M&A and then lateral after a year. I'm not at any of those firms but if you look on linkedin there's some people that lateraled from key to jefferies, etc. I know people at my MM that lateraled from LMM after a year. I've also seen people in my network lateral from LMM to EB/BB so really anything's possible.
Take LMM M&A - as the above poster mentioned it's not that hard to lateral after your first year.
It depends on what you want to do longer-term (or at least in the next few years). Do you want to do M&A and possibly then PE? If that is the case, take the LMM M&A offer and lateral after a year to a better shop to set yourself up for the future. Lateralling is pretty easy these days, especially with how much demand is in the industry (that may change). Also, you have to decide if you like ECM or like M&A better and then factor that into your decision.
As for the processes with other firms, I don't typical suggest rolling the dice on those possibilities but that is a personal choice.
Thanks for your feedback….tough to start SA already thinking next move but I guess that’s the nature of it all.
Yea, it's not ideal. It's really more about M&A vs ECM and then you can go from there
Do you want to do mergers or do you want to do ECM? That’s really the only choice here.
yeah that's right - since I haven't done either, I am not sure LOL.
At one of the LMMs you mentioned and it’s super easy to lateral if you want to. Get hit up almost daily.
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