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Top performance, one of the few funds that are able to pull out massive returns on large equity tickets (e.g. Belron recently). Very sharp people but very formal culture ("German" culture), good comp. As mentioned above, they focus on value deals - they don't work on the sexiest businesses out there, and do a lot of financial engineering. Promotion track is longer than market average, and is only getting longer. 

 

Looks like they really only have three levels Associate -> Principal / MD (depending on if US or European, MDs are also non-investment team as well) -> Partner.   

Principal step is very long but not that far off from the time it would take someone to go from post-MBA step -> SMD / Partner at a different shop ~ 10-12 years or so. 

Doing a rough look at their headcount / what I've heard from friends looking at step 1 principal roles there I would assume their more tenured principals get somewhere around 75-125 bps of pool.  100 bps on 2.0xing a 16bn fund is 32mm daw . . .  and they raise every 3 or years or so, so they could have 50m+ of daw at that step.  

 

It doesn’t look like it’s actually that long compared to other shops. Usually firms like BX / Carlyle / KKR have 2 or 3 levels between straight out of MBA position and MD / Partner which ends up being 7-8 years vs. CD&R that just has 1 with similar amount fo time at that level. Only thing about CD&R is not a lot of diversity at the Principal / Partner level even compared to the other large cap PE firms.

 

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