Lateral to top SV/Boston transactional practice Forum

[Anonymous User]

What should a NYC corporate associate at Cravath/S&C interested in emerging companies work do to: (i) maximize opportunities to lateral to a top SV/Boston emerging companies practice (Fenwick, Cooley, Gunderson, WilmerHale, WSGR, Goodwin, etc.) and (ii) to maximize value-adding capability and standing within the firm after lateraling? I studied a non-technical subject at an East Coast UG (Ivy), went to HYS, and have VC investing and start-up operations experiences from before law school.

[fats provolone]

do work, don't get fired, make connections

[911 crisis actor]

Start your own company

[fats provolone]

gamify your doc review, bootstrap your deliverables, disrupt discovery correspondence, and growth hack your pitch deck in case you run into treps at the food court

[JusticeHarlan]

Since there's no emerging company work at CSM/S&C, I would probably try to do as much work as you can in related fields, particularly M&A and equity capital markets work. Emerging company work can often involve a lot of capital markets and M&A as your start-ups get bigger and go public, get sold off, buy off smaller companies, etc., so you'll have some experience in something useful, and you can learn a standard NVCA venture financing on the job while still providing value. Being a junior doing M&A and IPOs will also involve diligence where you sift through corporate records from incorporation to the time of the transaction, which are a lot of the documents you'd be generating during the venturing financing phase, so you'll at least have some sense of what those docs look like.