Corporate Development
Corporate Development.
A corporate development team is judged on deals that close and integrations that hold, which is a different job from advising on either.
Levels we recruit
- Analyst
- Senior Analyst
- Manager
- Senior Manager
- Director
- Vice President
- Head of Function
Deal
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Divestitures
- Joint ventures and partnerships
- Corporate venture
Post-deal
- Integration
- Strategy
- Corporate finance
- Business development
The rest of them
The sectors next to this one
These markets share one talent pool and one referral graph, so the right person for a seat in one sector is often reached through another.
- Investment Banking Coverage and product bankers.
- Private Equity Deal teams, Operating Partners, and portfolio finance leadership.
- Private Credit Origination, underwriting, and portfolio management.
- Hedge Funds Portfolio Managers, Analysts, and the risk and research seats around them.
- Venture Capital Investors and platform hires for early and growth-stage funds.
- Secondaries LP and GP-led Secondaries investing and structuring.
- Infrastructure Core, core-plus, and energy transition investing.
- Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Corporate development, strategy, and finance leadership in technology, media, and telecommunications.
- Healthcare Corporate development, strategy, and finance leadership in services and devices.
- Financial Institutions Finance, strategy, and corporate development inside banks, insurers, and asset managers.
- Consumer and Retail Finance, strategy, and corporate development in brands, retail, and consumer goods.
- Industrials Finance, strategy, and corporate development in manufacturing, aerospace, and business services.
- Energy and Power Finance, strategy, and corporate development across conventional energy, power, and renewables.
- Real Estate Finance, strategy, and corporate development across owners, operators, and managers.
Take it to one corporate Development seat
A conversation about one corporate Development seat is worth more than a conversation about the market around it.
If you are building a team, the most useful opening is the seat itself and what the last person in it got wrong. If you are someone these firms ask about, an exploratory conversation is worth having early and it stays private. We reply quickly. Approach sets out how the work is structured, and Contact is the fastest way to start.
All engagements are contracted and invoiced by Rand Thompson Consultants, LLC. Evrata opens the conversation and makes the introduction, and Rand Thompson runs the search.