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Which One Is Better, An offer in A Private Equity Firm or An Offer In A Big4 Company
[00:00:00] I'm a junior legal counsel and I got two offers. Which is better between a Private Equity firm as an M&A legal counsel, very interesting, and an offer in a Big4 company as a contract legal counsel, reputation?
I would say a full-time job working in a private equity company would probably be better than a big four company as a contract attorney.
If that's what you're saying because anything permanent is going to be better than anything that's contracting. Now, I don't know what the big four companies have to do but if you're learning M&A, at a private equity firm, and you think that it's interesting you're better off having a specialty than doing something general, especially as a contract attorney.
Now, the difference between working at a private equity firm, depending on how big it is, and a big four company you may have more opportunity in a big four company. You may have a longer career path, whereas private equity firms can go out of business very quickly and that sort of thing. So those are things that I would think about in terms of what you're thinking about with everything here. But I would say if it was me, I would do the [00:01:00] private equity because private equity is you're learning a practice area, which is M&A, and the big four, it doesn't sound like it's a contract job.
And if the big four is very specialized, like you're learning about I don't know, like corporate taxation of I don't know, different types of a special type of company that could be helpful. I don't know, but that's how I would think about it.
