PE interviews in the past have grilled about certain line items, margin %s, etc. If oncycle goes this early, we don't have our emails and our VPNs to log in to intranets/drives to catch up on deals from a year ago. Can't reach out to our deal teams either: no one would ever send files past the firewall to some incoming analyst's personal email.
Sure I'm sure everybody has printed out a couple of marketing pages and googled as much as they can from publicly available info. Doubt that those are enough.
If you were truly involved in the deal you would know those by heart. Even a range is fine.
Just make shit up. You’re talking about on cycle so this is “deal experience” from your summer, which for most isn’t too substantial anyway.
If you don’t have it, make a list of what you remember about each project you worked on. Then, literally make up #s that seem reasonable. Hell, make up the whole damn P&L based off whatever you remember. Nobody cares, so long as you can speak to it. You might get grilled, but offering something is better than nothing.
Example: you give them a made-up EBITDA margin and figure, but remember the multiple, so you know the broad valuation. Maybe some smartass asks “oh that’s a high multiple for this margin profile, why is that?” You say some shit like “yes, costs recently ballooned bc of [something believable], but mgt had a pretty compelling growth strategy into xyz space that buyers underwrote”
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