Secondaries PE Recruiting

For secondaries PE recruiting, I am wondering how important the following are : 

1) Being in a secondaries coverage group or sponsors coverage group. These seem like the most directly related groups for a secondary role, so I am wondering how much being in other groups would hurt.

2) Bank level. Does being at a BB/EB give you a significant advantage over respectable MM firms like in standard PE recruiting? 

I am also wondering how I should prepare for secondaries and what the timelines look like. It would also be helpful to get an updated sense of the top firms in the market to target, I am aware of the larger players like Blackstone, GS, Coller, or Lexington but would appreciate more insight into the general big players of the space and what the top names are to target.

 

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