Course / advice for pe senior associate?

To all pe senior associates, vps and current mbas - is there a course you have found helpful? I have 2 years of experience at a megafund but still feel I lack some knowledge around tax, legal and complex modelling.

Realize they may not be a good course (as these are geared towards entry level) but any other advice on how to become better at execution would also be appreciated

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Have you done a platform, portfolio work, add-ons, etc.? Sounds like you are missing the experience from doing LOI diligence… so 2 years at MF with no deal experience? No courses will be a substitute to that..

 

Cool, so the add-on is great experience; sucks to be in portfolio hell (and not work on new platforms or deals); I guess you could look at macabacus models if you really want to dig in on modeling, but those are a headache imo and harder to know what to focus on; but that would be the resource I’d go for

 

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