Some MBB-PE statistics

As a consultant and a long-time WSO lurker, you can imagine how dearly I love LinkedIn, private equity, and graphs. I therefore dedicated my Saturday afternoon combining these interests, trawling LinkedIn for private equity companies and producing a graph for you, my fellow chimps.

 - Looks like the most consultant-heavy PE funds are BainCap (huge surprise), H&F, Advent, EQT, Permira, and Apax.
 - Also got some numbers on the difference between the MBB firms and Bain sends the most into PE (once again, huge surprise).

A breakdown of private equity fund employees by former work experience.

A breakdown of MBB alumni by percentage going into private equity

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