0 Best Corporate Strategy Guide to Prepare for PE Interviews 1 13y
+18 Reference Checks 9 13y
+37 LBO model-Management Rollover Equity-Sources and Uses-Urgent 38 9y
0 Northwest Venture Partners - Salary & Bonus - Management Data 13y
0 Stick to IBD or take interview for PE 4 6y
0 Bessemer Venture Partners - Salary & Bonus - Relationship Coverage Data 13y
0 LBO of an Internet Service Provider 2 13y
0 ISB India 1 6y
0 Blackstone - Opportunities for Real Estate 1 6y
+15 Cold Emailing Private Equity Firms 5 13y
0 What do VCs do with Cap Tables once they get them? 0 13y
0 Summer 2013 PE Firms Still Hiring 6 13y
0 Business medicine, any other ideas? 0 13y
0 Are the Morgan Stanley Asia offices on global payscales? 1 6y
0 HBS 2+2 a plus for pre-MBA PE recruiting? 8 13y
0 Equity Investors 9 13y
0 Private equity opportunities 5 6y
+14 Cerberus Capital with the blood of innocents in their hands? 15 6y
0 J.C. Flowers 1 10y
+20 Negotiate for higher salary after two years (Associate / PE) 6 13y
0 Physical Assets 10 6y
0 Cost of Capital - Web Series 20 6y
0 Huntsman Gay 7 4y
0 Grove Street Advisors - Salary & Bonus - Investments Data 13y
0 Battery Ventures - Salary & Bonus - Growth Equity Data 13y
0 Best Compensation Survey 3 13y
0 Bessemer Venture Partners - Salary & Bonus - Venture Capital Data 13y
0 Golden Gate Capital - Salary & Bonus - Private Equity Data 13y
0 Morgan Stanley Infrastructure (MSI) Fund 6 6y
0 Valuing PE Portfolio as Direct Secondary? 0 13y
0 PE FoF investments and valuation 4 13y
+15 PER - Private Equity Recruitment 5 3y
0 Meeting two PE Pertners for a meeting 2 6y
0 P/E Phone Interview 0 13y
0 CFO vs IB, just finished school 13 11y
0 Riverside Partners - Salary & Bonus - Private Equity Data 13y
0 Buyside in HK / Asia 3 6y
0 Sales vs. Business Development 9 6y
0 Recruiting for Summer 2014 Associate Class 8 13y
0 Multi-Family Office in Switzerland 0 6y
+34 Africa PE 35 6y
+6 carlyle recruiting 10 13y
0 Brokerage to... 0 13y
0 Venture Financing 0 13y
+16 First round big PE 16 4y
+25 Wharton Course: Private Equity Videos 14 12y
0 Much ado about liquidity? Lockup expirations and stock prices 4 13y
+37 How is PE mezz financing? Salary? Workload? 35 9y
0 Analyst Position out of school for Small, Relatively Unknown PE Firm, Comp/Exit Ops? 2 13y
0 request advice - non-traditional PE overseas to IBD, older applicant 2 13y
0 What happens if a senior associate or VP gets laid off? Chances of becoming Partner? 4 13y
0 current MM IB Analyst...decision help 6 13y
+2 Private Placement Analyst 11 12y
+23 What happens if you lose your PE job in your 30s...?! 12 6y
+53 LBO Models in Your Head 28 7y
0 5AM Ventures - Salary & Bonus - Finance Data 13y
0 Bain Capital - Salary & Bonus - Equity Desk Data 13y
0 resume for lateral hire into pe/ib 12 6y
+11 summer of 2013. Who's left? 12 6y
0 Campus on-site talk preparation? 2 6y
0 Background / Reference Check 5 13y
+23 Returning to finance industry after taking time off 8 13y
0 Reuters Interview with David Rubenstein, Co-Founder of the Carlyle Group 5 13y
+45 The REAL Reason You Didn't Get That Job 17 12y
+24 Blackstone - Entrance level analyst 12 10y
0 What valuation techniques do you guys use in PE? 16 11y
+3 I am starting on Private Equity Real Estate Fund 9 13y
0 Private Equity Land Fund Informational Incoming, Need Info 0 13y
0 Career Advice - Private Equity 2 13y
0 Cascade Partners 0 13y
+11 Vault Guide Question 5 13y
+1 CapIQ/Prequin favor 3 13y
0 Graham Partners - Salary & Bonus - Investments Data 13y
+27 Did I Miss the Boat on Being Entrepreneurial By Majoring in Finance? 11 5y
0 Abbott Capital - Salary & Bonus - Finance Data 13y
0 Infrastructure funds 1 13y
+38 Paper LBO Example -- Need Help 19 9y
+52 Too Big To Invest? The Downside to Mega Fund PE 22 13y
0 Interview with Managing Partner Tomorrow-- NEED HELP PLEASE!! 3 6y
0 Exit Opportunities: Consulting vs. Banking 16 9y
0 interview Question - potential target investment 1 10y
+38 Private Equity: Too disruptive or not disruptive enough? 12 13y
+21 Breaking into Angelo Gordon & Co. 13 6y
+22 Riveria Investment Group 13 2y
0 Private Equity geographical locations? Ample opportunities outside NYC? 7 6y
0 Satori Capital 0 6y
+12 morgan stanley alternative investment partners 10 4y
0 Blackmore Partners - Review - Mergers and Acquisitions Data 13y
0 Greenspring Associates? 6 11y
+14 Rhone Group 19 5y
0 I'm wondering if undergrads... 6 13y
0 Sun Capital / turnaround PE case study 9 9y
0 KKR (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) - Review - Information Technology (IT) Data 13y
+34 Cancel consulting contract to go directly into a megafund after ugrad 8 13y
+34 Linking DCF to IRR analysis 13 13y
0 Things to look out for in Minority Investment Proposal? 0 13y
0 Phantom Carry 31 9y
0 5AM Ventures - Review - Transportation Data 13y
+11 For All You Prestige Whores 15 13y
0 Consulting vs PE in Asia 4 6y

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  • 1st Year Analyst (75) $151
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