Mid-level M&A associate here considering a move out of legal. If anyone here has made the move from M&A biglaw to a corporate development role in-house, I'd be interested to know (i) why you made the move, (ii) your thoughts on the new role and (iii) how you landed the corp. dev position.
Thanks all.
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curepure
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Re: M&A to Corp. Dev
Don't think that's likely for an m&a lawyer. Corp Dev are kinda the in-house positions for ibankers or consultants
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Re: M&A to Corp. Dev
Bump, also interested
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Re: M&A to Corp. Dev
TTTooKewl wrote:Mid-level M&A associate here considering a move out of legal. If anyone here has made the move from M&A biglaw to a corporate development role in-house, I'd be interested to know (i) why you made the move, (ii) your thoughts on the new role and (iii) how you landed the corp. dev position.
Thanks all.
Some shops were receptive to this when I was coming out of law school (senior analyst level) - you have to be pretty financially literate and probably go to a place that's non-desirable location wise.
There's a guy at Goldner Hawn that made that switch from Sidley in the 90s and another dude at Humana who made that switch. Probably more if you look.
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Re: M&A to Corp. Dev
There are Corp Dev folks at my company who started out as M&A lawyers. Probably the easiest way to do it is to take an M&A in-house position and do a bang-up job. It helps comfortable with numbers/modeling and have excel skills.curepure wrote:Don't think that's likely for an m&a lawyer. Corp Dev are kinda the in-house positions for ibankers or consultants
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Re: M&A to Corp. Dev
3rd year big-law associate in M&A here, I actually was 95% towards taking this exact position about 6 months ago but timing just wasn't right and I was on track to hit the higher end of my hours so I didn't want to walk away from my bonus. I was looking at a mid-level M&A position - think director role, so about associate/analyst but not the top honcho. Frankly the only reason they gave me a shake was because I worked in IBanking before I went to law school and did M&A back then. So I have the knowhow and modeling skills to fit in. Outside of that I think it'll be a hard transition to pull off if you're not already in-house at that company.
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