Has anyone spent time in industry on a Corp Dev team? I have an upcoming interview for a director role at company who does a fair amount of deals and I’m curious about pros and cons vs consulting.

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^ I wouldn't consider not making a deal fruitless. Most opportunities don't end up with closing a deal anyway

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Also curious about how you think upward mobility works with roles in those teams. Any insights are definitely appreciated.

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I’m in industry now on a Cop Strat team and we work closely with our Corp Dev team. We have a lot of ex consultants on our Corp Dev team and I kinda think that’s a red flag (as opposed to having ex bankers). The pro is that they don’t work as much as consulting but I would say the con is that they do a lot of fairly fruitless work that doesn’t end in a deal.

@D2 out of curiosity, why is it a bad thing that it’s more former consultants than investment bankers?

To me the team doesn’t seem to be great at doing deals like I assume bankers who have deal experience would be. To compare I interned at another company in the same industry with a Corp Dev team that was half the size, all bankers, and closed 5x the number of deals/year than the company I’m at now.

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