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Not sure about the US but I suspect it is similar to Europe. Not a great reputation in the street. Super top heavy despite a number of people exiting, just count the number of Directors and Partners. It's pretty telling which means the room to grow is limited.
Heard that back stabbing is relatively common and Associate don't stay very long, sometimes not even a year.
Comp is not great, heard bonus is capped at 40-50%, all your comp is in the carried which I heard is pretty generous but very theoretical for a number of years.

 

EQT infra has done some of the most interesting infra deals in recent years. A personal favourite is First Transit US. The company they carved the business out of is public’s so there is a load of info on it but essentially they bought the US regional and school bus businesses from First Transit Group then after a year sold the regional bus service and now are just running the school bus business. Great shop from a deal complexity perspective. A bit more focussed on digital infra than traditional sectors (e.g. renewables)

 

Antin has done some good deals too, notably Wildstone, a formerly Digital Bridge billboards business where the BP is to buy billboards then convert them to digital ones.

- Digital billboards facilitate greater revenue as you can run more / more targeted ads
- Lower opex as you don’t need people to manually change the paper display
-despite billboards not seeming like infra, you have long term contracts with media companies (who themselves organise the adds) so there is a lot of downside protection.

 

Overall very tough culture and there have been changes recently where the NextGen team was merged with the broader Infra team which has made people unhappy. Supposed to be quite a stressful place in Paris at least.

 

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