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How busy are corporate groups at Silicon Valley firms?
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 2:52 pm
by Anonymous User
I'm at a SV firm (Gunderson, Cooley, Fenwick, Wilson). It's crazy busy right now.
How busy are other folks at similar firms? Which practices are hot or not? Any thoughts on whether things will cool off or stay busy?
Self interest: trying to plan a vacation with girlfriends in the near future
Re: How busy are corporate groups at Silicon Valley firms?
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:15 pm
by Tiago Splitter
Several native and NYC-satellite offices are hiring 3L's right now, so I guess they figure it'll stay busy for a while.
Re: How busy are corporate groups at Silicon Valley firms?
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:31 pm
by Anonymous User
at one of those firms too. things are batshit busy and will get even busier closer to the new year, so get your vacation in now. work will cool when interest rates rise, tho not nec. VC work.
Re: How busy are corporate groups at Silicon Valley firms?
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:49 pm
by Anonymous User
Ack! So do you not think it'll be possible to take a vaca over New Years? Will end of year crazy bleed into first week of January?
Why wouldn't VC work cool off with interests rates? Just curious.
Anonymous User wrote:at one of those firms too. things are batshit busy and will get even busier closer to the new year, so get your vacation in now. work will cool when interest rates rise, tho not nec. VC work.
Re: How busy are corporate groups at Silicon Valley firms?
Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2014 5:35 pm
by JusticeHarlan
Anonymous User wrote:Why wouldn't VC work cool off with interests rates? Just curious.
Not the person who originally brought it up, but my guess is that it's a combination of VCs not needing to lever (unlike, say, PE, which is dependent on borrowing to finance transactions) and the return on equity investments still being solidly above most high grade debt investments (unless interest rates shoot up way beyond a hundred basis points or whatever the fed's next move is) to keep money flowing into new funds.
So long as the Facebooks of the world are still buying start-ups for gigantic sums of money, VCs work will keep humming along.