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I made a career out of this. I'm a former pen tester, cloud security architect, and vCISO. M&A can get somewhat repetitive if you get shoed into just due diligence. I'm now leading a team that does the full lifecycle of M&A, including IT/cyber advisory while a company is in a PE's portfolio. That last component gives you access to PEs and small to mind sized companies that don't have the sophistication of an org with a CISO FTE, which means you're the acting CISO bringing together security practices with business growth strategies. Very exciting IMHO.
Houlihan Lokey is hiring in the technology and cyber space.
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1. It pays very well
2. You have are building a case to get into PE —more $$$
3. It’s repetitive unless you’re working the whole lifecycle then you learn the business.
Someone keep me honest here, but I believe you’d really only play a part in the Due Diligence aspect. I think the process would be very repetitive, but the findings / results would be interesting on a case by case basis
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I have participated in the strategy portion. It all comes down to their trust in you. Also, a lot of post deal 100 day strategy and carve out work. DD about 60%
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K1- does kpmg have a M&A cyber group outside advisory?
Kpmg cyber m&a is just a basic outside-in cyber scan tool (using bitsight, etc) with a kpmg wrapper. They don’t have deep cyber skills. Just life long consultants who learnt a bit of cyber.
There are a lot of phases in the lifecycle, you can start with due diligence where you get to see a lot of companies over a short time, but as other have mentioned it can be repetitive.
There is also a strategy/long term component where you are merging two cyber orgs or helping stand up a new cyber org that has recently been spun off. Feel free to DM me for more info.