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Thank you! Would love access to your materials as well.

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I recently completed a take home case study for an experienced pe associate spot at BX NYC. They provided me with the ticker for a publicly traded manufacturing company and asked me to build a model and write an investment memo. I built from scratch a very basic take private lbo model with a simple sensitive analysis for IRR at different share price premiums, and provided a summary of the business and my recommendation (good potential investment but wait for the stock price to drop a bit) via a 30 pg PPT deck. I was invited to the final round at their offices and had to present my 30 pg deck in front of two partners (they flipped page by page through entire deck). Ended up not getting an offer.

 

Guys can you please PM me if you have anything you're willing to share/exchange and if you're in the "dropbox group" as well? for some reason the guy who created the dropbox hates my guts and won't add me or answer me

 

There is one it's just that, either the guy who created it is too busy to check his inbox, or he simply got what he needed so no point in helping others.

 

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