Reducing Hourly Flex Due to Deals?

Obviously since PE/VC is a deal based business hours flex pretty hard/fast. Are there any specific strategies you guys have seen used before to reduce this somewhat? Trying to minimize the whole 60 hours a week until a deal is suddenly on and getting smashed with 100+ hour weeks. This is problematic for our core ops team primarily and people really don't like it. The high hours aren't an issue themselves but having them flex suddenly is the real problem since people have to cancel plans last minute.

This is for LMM if it matters and staffing up excessively isn't really an option. It's hard to say no to a deal too since as you all know, good deals only really come up once in a while...

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