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Thanks, Which one of those firms mentioned would you target from pay / WLB perspective (for someone thinking about transitioning from an equity role)

 

Heard a couple warnings about culture, but it's probably inherent to the strategy - minimizing the time from term sheet to closing is part of what wins mandates. What you should probably think about is whether you could do those sprints on top of a commute to and from CT. 

Given the long-term success of their flagship distressed operations and the complexity of some of those deals, hard to see how this relatively more straightforward private credit business doesn't follow suit. 

 
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It’s interesting because if you look at the backgrounds of their investment professionals, vast majority are special sits / restructuring or LevFin bankers on the junior side and private equity or special sits backgrounds on the senior investment professional side. Pretty interesting. Wonder if they’re only doing 1L/2L deals or are going deeper in the capital structure. Seems like they also do real estate and some spec fin

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