30 min interview-PE investment memo

Hello, everyone. Traditionally an IM contains many pages. But during a 30 min interview where several slides of a company is given and you're asked to write an IM, how will you condense your IM? How will you analyzed and organize the IM structure?

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This is a pretty good framework that I used for a case study with an UMM fund (got the offer). I'd have 2-3 bullets for each: 

  1. What do they actually do/sell? What divisions do they have?
  2. How has the market been performing? Is it large and/or growing?
  3. How have they been performing financially? Are they growing?
  4. What are risks to the business?
  5. How can we change things and drive growth?
  6. What would we pay for the business? How much leverage can we slap on it?
  7. Yes or No on whether you would buy (may want to put it up top)
 

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