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ArcLight. Good luck getting an offer from there though.
why? really hard interviews?
1 - 2 seats for a relatively large pool of candidates
Don’t understand this comment. Bunch of unremarkable juniors there lately.
Disagree. Is this take based on a Linkedin search?
Ok? Don’t care about your opinion.
I have worked with multiple current and former associate / VPs.
you can look at their team page - they are not pulling juniors from good shops
Sounds like you were on the banking side and just got steamrolled by a ton of 1am comments. Don’t be resentful, you’ll make it to the buyside one day.
Take anything high hopes says with a grain of salt. Tends to prefer controversy rather than the truth.
ArcLight is a shadow of the firm it was 5+ years ago. Associate quality isn't bad, per se, but the somewhat challenging culture and subpar returns don't make it an attractive value proposition unless you are more senior and have already carved out a meaningful chunk of the pie. Not bad for a ~2-year stint if you want to be in Boston but I'd look elsewhere if you are interested in a solid seat with promising internal growth prospects.
I work in the industry. These are the names I see the most in the mid market. I can't speak to performance. DIF, Northleaf, Actis, Ullico, Axium, CCL, Arclight, Greenbacker (renewables focused), Basalt
great info thank you! Would you say you still make good money at these power/energy focused MM PE shops on par with other MM shops?
From what I see, at the junior level there's definitely a discount on comp relative to corporate PE, though it's still very good.
Agreed with DIF and Basalt in particular. Feel like a lot of the mm infra shops are fairly siloed geographically so nice differentiation if you’re working across both NA and EMEA deals. Will be interesting to see if DIF stays in the mm post CVC acquisition.
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