Private Equity Ranking (2021)

In advance of 2021 cycle, I wanted to help bankers think through the best buyside funds to join this year. This is how I would prioritize my recruiting efforts, Ranked by prestige / exit opps / HSW placement:

There’s plenty of great shops out there but if you end up at these top 15 you should be fine for MBA/ lateral processes at more niche opps down the road.

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“Rachel helped me through the very beginning and we had several iterations that were crucial to the development of a better and great CV for applications. I appreciate her patience and puntual feedback every single time. Also the response time was very short and kept me aware of any delay. It kept me on line for what I had to do and some areas to focus that I didn't knowe before, and some of them honestly I didn't have any idea. Very well all around work”

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“Julius was extremely helpful in breaking down the accounting concepts, especially allowing me the opportunity to walk through a question step by step on how the three financial statements are impacted across income, cash flow and balance sheet along with figuring out the mental math for it all. The concept for Equity Value to Enterprise value and bridging between the two were fairly straight forward. Along with the networking advice on reaching out to potential recruiters for Investment banking roles and how lateral recruitement is happening year end vs going into Q1 next year.”

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In advance of 2021 cycle, I wanted to help bankers think through the best buyside funds to join this year. This is how I would prioritize my recruiting efforts, Ranked by prestige / exit opps / HSW placement:

Blackstone;

Apollo;

H&F;

Silver Lake;

Carlyle;

Thoma Bravo;

KKR;

Warburg Pincus;

Bain Cap;

Vista;

Advent;

TPG;

Permira;

Ares;

Genstar.

There's plenty of great shops out there but if you end up at these top 15 you should be fine for MBA/ lateral processes at more niche opps down the road.

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