PE interview in-house commercial case study - best approach

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to get some advice on how to best approach the PE in-house commercial case study, which you get mid/late stage in the interview process. The format I have been through, and am preparing myself for, is the one hour preparation, one hour presentation type of case study. Where you are given some kind of information pack (in my cases slide decks and not full on CIMs) and not asked to do any PowerPoint slides bur rather just discussing the investment recommendation etc.

My question relates to any advice on how to most efficiently go through the information and structure the presentation. The most recent case study I had, I split the time 20min/20min/20min on going through the pack/collating my thoughts/fine-tuning and rehearsing. What I did notice was that I missed a few of the details given the relative short amount of time spent on going through the full pack. So it was perhaps not the best appraoch to that case study.

Any thoughts and advice on this would be much appreciated! Thoughts on key points to think about from an investment point of view would also be much appreciated but I am aware this has been covered in other threads previously.

Apologies if this has been posted before. I had a quick search-through but could not find anything specific on this.

Many thanks,

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