What are the best PE shops or HFs located on the West Coast (especially around LA)? This could include NY based shops with strong West Coast offices or West Coast based firms. Simply put, where are the best places to do PE or HF on the West Coast?
Is recruiting process different than that conduced for NY based shops?
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How about HF?
Farallon
HF: farallon, oaktree has a distress fund, citadel
there are also smaller guys such as beach point, ivory capital
HF: farallon, watershed, clarium, canyon capital, oaktree, citadel PE: kkr, tpg, silver lake, elevation, francisco, ares, leonard green, hellman&friedman, gores group IM: Pimco, capital group, dodge&cox, dimensional fund advisors
add onto PE..these are the good MM players
platinum, vector, genstar, gryphon, industrial growth partners, silverlake (big and MM)
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