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+48 PE Associate, please help on lateraling 8 8y
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+48 Micro private equity + real estate 18 4y
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+48 Which P&L, CFS, BS Items important LBO?? 16 6y
+48 PE Associate Recruiting with Business School Deferred Admission 15 5mo
+48 Getting cold feet before buying a small biz? 29 5y
+48 Huron Capital - Detroit - Can anyone share their experience they had as an Associate? 54 3y
+48 Q&A: 2 years in Banking and now in MM PE - ask me anything 46 5y
+48 Investment Professional VS Operating Professional 33 5y
+48 Exit multiple / Terminal Value for Operating Solar Project 28 2y
+48 Q&A - Big4 Accountant to PE Corp Dev Team 8 4y
+48 Best Healthcare PE Groups in the world 68 3y
+48 Blackstone in NYC: Culture/Comp/Perks 42 2y
+48 Remote work - how much is it worth to you? 25 4y
+48 Top West Coast PE Funds 32 3y
+48 Is Insight really that good? 32 3y
+48 Urgent: Partners Group vs MMPE 14 2y
+48 Bain Capital Healthcare 16 3y
+48 Senior Comp at MF PC 28 3y
+48 Urgent: Fired from Banking / PE Offer 27 3y
+48 On cycle vs off cycle with low GPA? 16 3y
+48 Best group at Bain Capital? 52 1y
+48 HongKongers in HK Private Equity - Can you survive in a mainland-Chinese dominated labour market? 14 1y
+48 What has been your experience working for PE portcos? 26 8mo
+48 Joining an exciting new Software Rollup over PE/ Growth Equity? 36 5mo
+48 Manulife Secondaries raises only $235mm... 13 1y
+48 Whitehorse is now Dawson lol 45 1y
+48 Off-Cycle 2026 Megathread 25 1y
+48 Sinking ship 19 2y
+48 Anyone just starting to care a lot less / are no longer "career" driven and obsessed? 14 8mo
+48 Is Infrastructure PE sweaty? 19 1y
+48 Choosing Corp Dev Over PE post 2 years at MOE / EVR? I want to, but peers telling me I have "given up" if I do 17 1y
+48 Struggling to Break into IB/PE/ER After 5 Months of Recruiting – SEEKING ADVICE 16 1y
+48 Opinions on this Corp Dev All in Comp Number? Have LMM PE Offer, might take it 37 1y
+48 Ontario Teachers Conceding Defeat? 23 1y
+48 MBA for PE in US? Am I being to naive? 21 1mo
+48 Laid Off from UMM PE — Struggling to Rebound in Brutal Market (London) 9 2mo
+48 Were PE MBA admissions ever “easy”? 19 1y
+48 Prestige and risk 8 1y
+48 Secondaries Outlook 2025 37 7mo
+48 How do you deal with being a PE failure going to LMM? 24 1y
+48 Lender's Legal Fees Are Out Of Control (Proposed Solution) 23 6mo
+48 Why would anyone do PE in long term in 2026? 13 1d
+47 Group Led by K.K.R. to Buy Samson for $7.2 Billion in Largest LBO of Year 19 4y
+47 Private Equity RE - Long time lurker, first time poster - 30bn AuM 18 6y
+47 Blackstone Culture 21 6y
+47 Given that you go to a good school, why not go directly to PE instead of IBD first? 23 12y
+47 Q&A - London Megafund PE, one year in... 56 4y
+47 Buying Into the General Partnership 10 10y
+47 Materials for Starting the Job 24 8y
+47 Search Fund Internships worth it? 21 9y
+47 Was it a mistake? A confused Private Equity junior. 4 8y
+47 Traditional Private Equity vs. Special Situations Investing 8 8y
+47 Work on the deals side or support of the Portoflio 14 4y
+47 How to raise a fund - what I know, and what I'm clueless about 5 7y
+47 Evercore and Lazard NY Placement 16 7y
+47 Moving from South East Asia MM Buyout House to America 14 6y
+47 Why would a PE partner call me for a chat? 20 5y
+47 “Venn Diagram” shops 25 5y
+47 Healthcare Consulting to CVC Capital Partners: Worth the move? 10 3y
+47 Option Pool Question 16 6y
+47 How To Record Earnout Paid in LBO Context? 12 6y
+47 Stellex 60 4y
+47 Deleted 24 3y
+47 Infrastructure PE vs Traditional PE 14 4y
+47 Large Cap Infrastructure Investing 57 3y
+47 London PE Funds with the BEST culture - Tell me yours 55 3y
+47 How to boost energy levels in general 24 4y
+47 Culture and hours at PE in London 43 2y
+47 Internationals in IB/PE - Where are you now? 23 2y
+47 Mid-level (10 yrs exp) getting a MBA? 9 3y
+47 One Rock Capital Partners 55 1mo
+47 Is Vista’s Analyst Program Any Good? 37 2y
+47 Anyone else scared of their associates ? 17 2y
+47 Boomerang from PE back to IB? 14 11mo
+47 Best Tech PE Deals Ever? 34 8mo
+47 (Serious) PE Funds with Good WLB 32 2y
+47 Fundraising/IR vs PFG vs Wholesaler 12 11mo
+47 Why does IRR matter? 29 2y
+47 PE funds specializing in DECLINING businesses? 24 1y
+47 Best PE Sector to be in (tailwinds) 28 1y
+47 Time to be a founder? 43 1y
+47 2024 PE Bonus Thread 31 1y
+47 How sophisticated are LPs in reviewing GPs? 23 1y
+47 Is top caliber talent still choosing to recruit for private equity? 16 1y
+47 Hot Take: On-Cycle Overweights the “Leftovers” from Target Schools 21 1y
+47 Are financial modelling skills overrated? 9 10mo
+47 How easy is Private Credit? 16 1y
+47 Found a distressed manufacturing business to purchase for around 900K 20 12mo
+47 Fundless Sponsors 27 10mo
+47 How does HIG structure deals in unique ways? 16 9mo
+47 On Cycle Results 73 2mo
+47 Software PE - deal count going forward? 17 5mo
+47 Got caught with a wrong number in an IC meeting because I trusted AI output. 13 3mo
+47 Biggest (avoidable) failures in PE Investments? 24 2mo
+46 Another PE interview question - Usage of convertible notes in deal? 18 3y
+46 Value of Boutique PE Internship? 17 14y
+46 2014 Recruiting - Chatter About things starting up 64 12y
+46 Getting Dropped in the Tank 47 12y

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