London Private Equity Recruiting

What is the story right now? It feels like nobody is hiring (looking for associate 1 roles). 

Obviously hard to navigate as cannot keep in touch with everyone I ever had coffee with all the time and do not want to pester too much, but also not all HHs are responsive or they pick and choose to tell you which opportunities about..

Ones I am unsure on and appreciate if anyone knows 

  1. Great Hilll
  2. Keensight Capital
  3. Inflexion
  4. Bridgepoint
  5. Cinven
  6. CPPIB
  7. MML
  8. Providence Equity Partners
  9. TA Associates
  10. Warburg Pincus
  11. KKR
  12. TPG
  13. Carlyle
  14. Adams Street
  15. Bregal
  16. Mubadala
  17. PSG
  18. Sovereign
  19. Epiris
  20. Apollo
  21. Ardian
  22. Terra Firma Capital Partners
  23. Stellex

I have the below places marked as not hiring

  1. 3i
  2. Advent
  3. AGIC
  4. Ares
  5. Astorg
  6. August Equity
  7. Battery Ventures
  8. BDT Capital Partners (BDT & MSD)
  9. Blackstone
  10. Bowmark
  11. Brookfield
  12. CD&R
  13. Charterhouse
  14. CVC
  15. EQT
  16. Eurazeo
  17. Fremman
  18. General Atlantic
  19. GI Partners
  20. Hellman & Friedman
  21. Hg
  22. Hillhouse
  23. ICG
  24. IK Partners
  25. Investcorp
  26. L Catterton
  27. Lion Capital
  28. LLCP
  29. Limerston
  30. Livingbridge
  31. Marlin
  32. Mayfair
  33. Metric
  34. Oakley Capital
  35. OakTree
  36. One Peak
  37. Perwyn
  38. Platinum Equity
  39. PSP
  40. Rhone
  41. Silver Lake
  42. Stirling Square
  43. Synova
  44. TCV
  45. TDR
  46. Thoma Bravo
  47. TowerBrook
  48. Trilantic
  49. TSG Consumer
  50. Waterland
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