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Currently work at CIBCs Energy Transition/Infra IB team. Do you think I'm competitive (3.8 GPA and went to a T15) and what are my options? Thanks in advance

not competitive for PE. CIBC is not relevant in US as a bank. you need to lateral to another bank which shouldn't be hard if you're good at power / infra. 

 
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Be careful with infra groups, at some places it's a legitimate M&A group, but at many banks it's just straight project finance under a different name and you won't get any PE exits. Macquarie is excellent at infra since it's all they do. I think JPM, C and MS have dedicated infra groups that do more than just PF.

P&U will be easier to lateral into (more spots) and would get you looks from any top infra shop. Barclays, C, BofA are some good names

 

Be careful with infra groups, at some places it's a legitimate M&A group, but at many banks it's just straight project finance under a different name and you won't get any PE exits. Macquarie is excellent at infra since it's all they do. I think JPM, C and MS have dedicated infra groups that do more than just PF.

P&U will be easier to lateral into (more spots) and would get you looks from any top infra shop. Barclays, C, BofA are some good names

don't agree with this. there's very recent threads on top power teams. 

Macquarie only does work for MIRA, their PE arm and rarely wins outside mandates. 

JPM is not a major renewables player. Barclays is mostly thermal but living off a legacy reputation from 10 years ago. 

 

Who said anything about renewables? That's a separate group at most banks...

lol the infra groups are much smaller at all those banks than power / renewables. 

energy / infra PE takes from power teams way more often than infra. 

believe infra at JPM / C / MS is straight PF and not as desirable to coverage / M&A experience that OP is looking for

(also don't immediately throw MS at me you fn moron)

 
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I'm not the one MSing you, debate and differing opinions on here are both good and probably helpful to OP

I said in my original comment that P&U was probably a better place and more spots than infra, and that "infra" is often just PF. But at least 2 of those 3 infra groups I named are not PF (from personal experience and close friends' experience).

Energy is also a way to get to infra but only a few teams sit in NYC, doubt OP wants to go NY -> Houston -> NY when they could get a NY P&U seat. P&U is a really natural step to infra so that seems like what OP should target

think we are saying similar things in different languages :)

 
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Madison Hunt specializes in infra

from what I saw they tend to only hunt for very selective roles (call it MF tier or whatever)

know they hunted for an EB power VP role earlier 

 

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