I am a first year associate in a corporate group at a large satellite V10 in LA. Currently in the corporate group. Our dept does mainly PE M&A and financing for those transactions. I was thinking about transferring to a different practice that has better exit opps in LA. This could be real estate or entertainment.
How difficult is it (if possible at all) to lateral into a different tx group in an outside firm? When should I look into this?
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Re: Lateraling from Corporate to other Transactional groups.
I'm guessing you're at K&E. Anyway, I've known a lot of lateral refugees from K&E LA and elsewhere. The key is to do it early (by your third year). Entertainment is very hard to get into, and I am sure if you join specific bar groups or network, it might be possible. But it's overall a very limited market with limited slots, so the key would be to network like hell (which is hard when you're doing PE M&A, I know).Anonymous User wrote:I am a first year associate in a corporate group at a large satellite V10 in LA. Currently in the corporate group. Our dept does mainly PE M&A and financing for those transactions. I was thinking about transferring to a different practice that has better exit opps in LA. This could be real estate or entertainment.
How difficult is it (if possible at all) to lateral into a different tx group in an outside firm? When should I look into this?
My understanding of LA RE law is that it's hard, but not impossible to get into. Stradling and Manatt have big RE practices and if they aren't anti-prestige, they should like your background. Start working the alumni connections anywhere you have them. GL.
