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mostly the fundamentals.. e.g., why LBOs, ideal candidates, why not 90% debt 10% equity financing structure and vice versa, would a fin sponsor prefer term loan a or b all else equal except ammortization?

you need to know how to do a paper LBO as well.. questions get harder/trickier if you get them correctly or have prior ib/investment experience

but you will not get asked on advanced LBO case study questions for an SA position

 
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I can help answer any of those loan capital markets related questions / provide knowledge in that area... Debt / equity (leverage - typical) Structure TLA / TLB Pricing, terms etc

or just look at my history of comments and I've answered this 2-3x if you got a real interview coming up w/ this area, feel free to message me/trade emails and I can bless you w/ some more info to get you as prepared as you want

 

LBOs: -What is an LBO, conceptually? -What makes a good LBO candidate? -Give me a company that you would perform an LBO on? -Walk me through an LBO Model? -Give me 5 levers you can pull to increase IRR? -Give me examples of sources and uses? -Paper LBO

Merger Models: -I’m not going to try and create examples, but know how to do accretion dilution math

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