European Activist Fund - Interview

Dear WSO community,

I come from a Private equity background, however, I have an interview at a rather big European activist Fund coming up, which I'm quite excited about. However, I am unsure how to prepare since there is not much information online, and no alumni from my uni have been there.

If you have any information or tips I would be very thankful!

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Gotta be Cevian. I have been in the analyst process.

First round was 2 cases. One consulting-style, and the other one was valuation + macro/investment reasoning

 

I did not survive the first round, honestly, the interview was pretty hard. However, the people were super friendly and you could tell that these guys were smart. It won't be super technical but be ready to discuss a wide variety of things (with a particular focus on different M&A/spinoff/turnaround cases, valuation, asset classes, geopolitics/macro and interest rates etc.) 

 

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