Lateral Thoughts - i am considering a move as a partner. NYC/transactional. Considering V&E , MoFo , Kirkland and Jones Day. Assuming comp is equal, what are your thoughts.

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Depends entirely on your client base.

V&E only if you are in the energy sector primarily. You will struggle to retain clients as V&E is the “energy” firm or at least wants to be (I would argue they have been overtaken).

Jones Day transactional is weak compared to the others.

MoFo if you do tech. Similar to V&E above but swap energy with tech.

Kirkland only if you’re getting equity.

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Not really sure MoFo is that tech heavy. I’m at one of the SV flagship firms and would not consider them a peer firm. If OP was considering FW or Cooley or WSGR or Gunderson I would say yes it will pigeon hole you to tech but not MoFo

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The answer is very specific to the person, the kind of clients they have, rates, portability of practice, long term goals.

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This has to be a troll post. A partner with legit offers wouldn’t solicit anonymous feedback on an app. What’s going to matter is the synergies with their practice and book of business with existing firm clients; equity vs NE; etc.

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Probably Kirkland all else being equal and assuming you’re already getting equity. If not, it’s a toss up between the others depending on your industry and specific goals.

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It would be real estate focus. Particularly data center focused.

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V&E or K&E are obvious frontrunners for this and both do a lot of data center related deals. Really depends on vibes, location, comp. Either way both practices will have substantial deal flow.

VE or Kirkland. Kirkland has a massive data center practice but everything around data centers nowadays is energy focused and VE is probably the best/deepest bench energy firm in the country.

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What makes you say that given their reputation in the energy/data center space?

Kirkland. V&E’s star is dimming/has dimmed already and New York is a very expensive failed effort for them. There are maybe 5 important people in that office (Fox/Nolan/..) and everyone else is in Houston. You didn’t mention, but the money and growth potential is going to be very different between those firms.

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Avoid Jones Day. Incredibly toxic and cult like.

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