Any horror stories regarding carry?
Can anyone share any horror stories regarding carry? Any thing to watch out for? Ridiculous clawbacks? Funds blowing up?
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Know of an energy fund that had an American waterfall with a clawback. Paid out something like $900M of carry (fund of like 20 people) in the early 2010s that all got clawed back a few years later because they tanked after oil prices cratered.
There were partners who had gotten 8-9 figure payouts that they had to come up with again
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