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Depends on what type of exit you are looking for… do you want to work at a startup —> Yes, a bank —> no. But it’s all relative.
The thing about exit options nobody told me is they are a lot more random than most people care to admit. Right place, right time, right connection, etc. Luck also helps a lot.
Best thing you can do is build relationships with clients/people in the space you want to work in.
I think in general, yes we usually have better than average exit opportunities than most practice groups, including M&A and cap markets. Funds, IP transactions, and privacy also have good exit opps from what I’ve seen, although those will be more limited to roles doing that exact type of work. Agree with C1 that it can be random, but in ECVC there are a few helpful factors: (1) you will have been serving as outside counsel to companies doing the types of things that you will probably be expected to do in house, (2) you tend to work frequently with the same clients over long periods of time (versus say M&A or specialists where you only work w them when directly needed and then disappear), which frequently can turn into a job offer from a client, and (3) ECVC is a generalist practice so you get a little bit of experience in lots of areas, which is attractive to companies.
For startups are we talking series D and above or would those companies prefer a cap markets attorney to carry them through an IPO?
It’s fairly common for companies to IPO without a dedicated SEC attorney and will hire one shortly thereafter. They will rely on outside counsel / in-house corp generalists to get through the S-1.