Best Up-and-coming/MM PE funds
Name some funds outside the KKR/BX/Apollo megafunds that you would love to work at. Shops with impressive management teams and foreseeable future growth
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Just a few: Code Hennessey (CHS Capital), Corporate Partners, Brockway Moran, JH Whitney, Patriarch Partners, Hicks Muse, Sterling Partners
That is a terrible list:
There are a lot of funds out there that do well, but aren't frequently mentioned on WSO. Examples: Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Platinum Equity Onex Corporation Advent Hellman & Friedman EQT etc etc
Good yearly study: http://peracs.com/2016/12/2016-hec-dowjones-private-equity-performance-…
PEI300: https://www.privateequityinternational.com/pei/pei300/
As far as I know all of Waterland's funds had been in the 1st quartile, with close or above triple (!) digit IRRs - they have been one of the most consistent funds globally, if not the #1. From what I heard the hours could be worse (non-Dutch offices), but they tend to pay relatively mediocre on juniors levels and only give carry from investment manager onwards (~principal level) => shit pay as junior with the tremendous carry carrot down the road.
On that note, there was recently a study published by a prof from HEC called Gottschalg, ranking funds across "historic performance and future competitiveness" .
The top 10 were
I work in the LMM space (fund size between 100M-600M) so I will share some that I consider solid
Encore Consumer Capital The Beekman Group BHMS Investments Insight Equity Iron Bridge Equity Partners Monomoy Capital Partners
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One Rock KPS Bregal Sagemount Gamut Clearlake