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Both funds appear to be cut from the same cloth. Started by former Bain Cap MD's, both investing a ~$1B long-term focused fund, both seem to predominantly hire former consultants. Judging from the websites both seem to have pretty high caliber people and would offer you a good Associate experience. Not sure how to compare them to other consultant-friendly PE funds though. Anyone else have thoughts?

 

Cove Hill has a very good reputation. High quality people. Fund raise was apparently very smooth. Supposed to be lots of room for advancement internally.

 

Definitely very MM. closer to LMM size. A 1.5bn round is not large at all. There’s no set number for UMM, but I would put it at around 8bn+

 
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As others have mentioned perception in the industry is very good. Anecdotally I think returns have been quite strong. I haven’t heard great things about WLB/culture though. They’re known to be a total sweatshop and have had a revolving door of Associates and VPs over the past couple years.

 

Anecdotally, really good returns for the few exits they've had. Invest in two main verticals: consumer tech and vertical software. Has a somewhat differentiated approach as they have evergreen provisions to hold portcos far past the typical 5-7 years. Associates are given coinvest and pay above market for their fund size (in line with UMM/some MF). Has seen some turnover soley from ex-consultants but otherwise strong track record of internal promotions.

 

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