Soon transferring from an advisory role (financing, FDD, consultancy, modeling etc) at a small boutique firm to a TAS role at BDO. Main clients are lower MM and MM PE as well as listed corporates.
Anyone with insight who could advice how to play my cards to end up in either PE or CorpDev?

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Skills-wise it feels like you could already make the jump to CorpDev, if you're comfortable with the higher level strategic thinking stuff (sounds like you're already across the detail-focused parts like modelling). Getting some exposure to the non-financial DD side (commercial, legal, SPA) would be something to think about working on. For the PE side I'd focus on networking with your current clients and sounding them out for a junior role based on your current experience.

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