0 Roll Up-focused PE funds 2 11y
+15 Need advice: Accept MM PE offer or recruit next year 9 11y
+51 Pre-MBA PE associates - How are you thinking about MBA? 38 3y
+12 Lower Middle Market Experience? 8 6y
+13 Family Office Experience 24 8y
0 In-house Operational/ portfolio company management career track in Private Equity? 0 11y
0 Is IRR always the ultimate deciding factor when looking at LBO Financing Structure? 4 11y
+7 Lion Capital London 6 1y
0 How does a PE exit if there is a lock-up period? 5 11y
0 Equity Multiple Interview Question? 4 11y
0 Turning impossible to possible--Finding a PE internship in 2 weeks, any advice? 0 11y
+15 Just closed my first deal 1 11y
0 Approaching a well known PE firm with no junior team 0 11y
+10 Oaktree 6 7y
+20 Post-MBA compensation? 11 9y
+10 Licenses for the buyside? 2 11y
+9 Commission Rate for Raising Capital 1 11y
+9 Blackstone PE London Hierarchy 6 6y
+4 HIG Final Round 7 11y
+48 Is Private Equity Dead? 22 11y
+63 Is PE FoF and Co-investing a dead end? 32 9y
+26 Small PE Firm or BB IBD 39 11y
0 Effect of Takeover Rumors on Peers 2 11y
+32 Embarrassing Test Scores and the Buyside 30 11y
0 Pay in institutional fundraising on the buy side? 1 11y
+11 Less Private Equity-backed IPOs in one of the biggest bull markets? 2 11y
0 this is what happens when you screw up at BX 1 11y
+17 Undergrad with FT Offer --- How Can I Start Networking with VCs? 4 11y
0 Ardian - (Axa PE) London 3 6y
0 What kind of internships do PE firms look for? 3 11y
0 Harrison Street-Real Estate PE 5 6y
0 Changing Industries(?) --> Buyside 4 11y
0 Strategic LBO in "Roll-Ups"? 6 10y
0 Does pre LBO debt matter when screening for potential LBO candidates 12 11y
0 Asian Boutique to PE ? 4 11y
+60 Lawyer to PE deal team (survey) - how did your colleague make the switch? 56 9y
0 Big 4 TAS/CF to PE DD in UK 2 10y
0 Best Books on distressed debt investing and M&A 2 11y
0 Anyone at a megafund from Barcap? 4 11y
0 Help: Accept a MM PE position in the Middle Office or Remain in Big-4 Valuations? Best Path to the Front Office? 3 11y
0 Blackstone PE internship - London 29 6y
+11 Thanks for the feedback 4 4y
+18 Quite Unconventional Background: Entrepreneur + M7 MBA to PE? 3 11y
0 Thoughts on Aranca / outsourced research firms 2 10y
+14 Need help deciphering this job description 11 11y
0 How can you impress a private equity firm without going through headhunters or prior working relationship? 0 11y
+35 From 350K job to something more fufilling like PE Firm as marketer or investment professional? 33 11y
+5 How much preferred equity to include in LBO? 10 11y
0 Best Way to Prep for Verbal Case Studies? 3 11y
+33 Summer 2016 PE Recruiting 63 11y
0 Bain 2015 PE Report 0 11y
+16 Consulting Friendly MM PE Firms? 13 10y
+14 Gryphon Investors SF 18 3y
+4 Asset Purchase LBO Model 0 11y
0 Carry across Multiple Strategies in Fund 5 11y
0 JP Morgan Exit Opportunities by Group 2 11y
+72 Private Equity Burn Out 47 7y
0 Lateral to better bank or PE 2 6y
0 What do Post-MBA Private Equity Associates Do? 5 11y
0 The Investor-Entrepreneur Divide 5 11y
0 Mac User Switching to Windows 6 11y
0 Was there an error in the LBO interview case? 15 6y
0 Family and friends round for a non-perishable specialty drink product: What questions to ask? 0 11y
0 Summer internship ideas? 3 6y
+34 Best way to judge PE firms during recruiting 16 11y
0 Top SF MM PE Firms? 9 11y
+12 Buy-side in the South 15 6y
0 How low can you go? Doing the Petrobras Limbo! 9 11y
0 List of publicly traded private equity funds 2 11y
+45 How do you model an earn-out in an LBO model? 34 1y
0 From M&A to Credit to PE 3 11y
+10 List of Buy Side Firms 7 11y
+18 Frustrated in my career and don't know what to do. Advice appreciated. 4 11y
+48 LBO paper model examples? 54 4y
+40 PE in economic recession 19 6y
0 Singapore: Investment management job search advice 3 6y
+70 Quality of talent at Megafunds? 28 10y
+17 Distressed Debt / Special Situations Modeling Tests 13 5y
0 Bayside Capital (HIG)? 5 11y
0 PE recruiting covered in Dealbook article 2 11y
0 Tenaya Capital 3 11y
0 Megafund Question re exit opp discussion 0 11y
0 Megafund Question 1 11y
0 LBO - capitalized financing fees 2 11y
0 when raise against convertible debt, how to select investors? 1 11y
0 lol delet 5 11y
0 Catalyst Capital (Toronto Distressed) - Thoughts? 4 6y
+10 how does valuation affect fundraising 9 5y
0 To the pre-MBA middle market PE associates--what happens next? 4 11y
+3 Recruiting: MSD Capital / EQT Partners 3 6y
+11 Credit vs. PE 10 11y
+86 Quitting with no gig lined up - deathwish? 59 6y
0 LBO model taking too long to converge 7 11y
0 Lower MM/New Fund & Mezz/Credit Recruiters 1 11y
+179 PE vs. IBD 198 4y
+20 Which PE firm to intern for? 15 11y
0 LBO in Foreign Currency 3 11y
+18 PE Interview for Junior Summer Internship 15 11y
0 Paladin Capital Group Email 0 11y
+75 Why do so many PE guys want to move over to the HF world? 40 6y

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