+27 Mega Fund - "Middle Office" 12 4y
+27 Quitting before my 3rd year of consulting: How should I spend my year before my 2020 PE Associate gig? 6 7y
+27 Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group 15 4y
+27 Regret taking a Corporate Strategy offer, now what? 9 7y
+27 On-Cycle Strategy / Rejecting Interviews / Reneging 8 10mo
+27 Latest on CD&R - London 26 1y
+27 Return sensitivities change too little - potential errors? 6 7y
+27 Mistakes in PE Case Study - what are my chances? 19 4y
+27 Buy and build…need your thoughts 9 3y
+27 Debt financing questions 6 7y
+27 How does IB and PE work for international students that don’t get h1b and transferred to EMEA? 17 1y
+27 Best impact investing firms 2022 12 3y
+27 PE Internship Experience? 2 3y
+27 What should us 2nd years do? Oncycle 2027 zero inbounds 9 10mo
+27 Hard to get along with one person...should I think about leaving? 9 6y
+27 Any experience working with Peterson, Pacific Lake, Anacapa, Housatonic or others? 8 1mo
+27 Would an MBA be worth it after 3 years in IBD for PE? 9 6y
+27 Does anyone have anything on Two Sigma Private Investments 17 3y
+27 Lower Mid-Mkt PE Firm - Anal to the nth degree??? 12 6y
+27 Issues with interviewing with startups after working in banking / PE 3 1y
+27 TOp Megafund PE Back Office in NYC trying to move into IB? 13 6y
+27 Switching careers from law (with some IB experience) to private equity 8 6y
+27 Modeling Cash Flow Statement from 10-k 1 6y
+27 PE Associate Comp Negotiation 16 9mo
+27 FIG/FinTech PE - Top Shops 31 4y
+27 How Often does this happen in the industry? 22 4y
+27 Ever feel like you’re stuck in PE? 12 6y
+27 Lateral Associate Recruiting - Struggling 13 2y
+27 Thoughts on PE WLB during COVID 1 5y
+27 Is Ares PE a UMM/MF Anymore? 26 3y
+27 Advice For Pursuing A Career in PE 7 6y
+27 N/A 11 3y
+27 Top Tech PE/GE In NYC 23 5y
+27 Parthenon Capital Partners - new Analyst program, reputation, lifestyle? 16 6y
+27 Creativity Eclipsing the JAMMBOs 1 8mo
+27 Lower tier BB: PE recruiting 12 6y
+27 How MF’s view H/S/W 7 6y
+27 Moving from Private Equity to Investment Banking (HELP) 8 6y
+27 PE Exit to Slower Paced Investment Role out of NYC 4 2y
+27 Private Equity Comparables 7 6y
+27 Private Equity Interview Bootcamp OPEN NOW 1 3y
+27 Client Pruning: Is there an algorithm for this? 9 6y
+27 How to send an interim email between first email + coffee chat and asking for an interview 6 6y
+27 Graham Partners Overview 22 5mo
+27 hhhjh 9 3y
+27 Leading Chinese funds 6 6y
+27 List of PE firms in Singapore 23 6y
+27 Top priorities for PE recruiting prep? 14 6y
+27 Investing Across Stages 18 4y
+27 PE Associate Middle East Sovereign Fund vs. Zurich family office 18 3y
+27 MBB to PE/HF? 12 6y
+27 PE folks: What's your initial dilligence framework / workflow? 7 6y
+27 How to fundraise from VCs? 8 5y
+27 3 statement LBO test from scratch (1hr time limit) - How do you model faster? 9 1y
+27 Signal Hill Equity Partners - Comments? Currently interviewing for Associate role 8 6y
+27 Technical due diligence of solar acquisitions 4 2y
+27 Debt Restructuring - PE owned company 7 3y
+27 necessity of MBA? 20 4y
+26 Updated PE Perks 8 1y
+26 Toughest On/Off-Cycle Interviews 23 2y
+26 Small PE Firm or BB IBD 39 11y
+26 Warburg Pincus Capital Solutions 21 2y
+26 . 7 5y
+26 Overpaying Shops Thread 73 5y
+26 Deferred Sales Commissions Excluded from EBITDA 2 9y
+26 Asian PE 34 1y
+26 PE Senior Associate Comp 5 9y
+26 KPS Capital Partners 26 2y
+26 Why is European / UK PE firm recruiting the way it is? Aptitude tests... 20 2y
+26 Cash Free Debt Free 3 3y
+26 Breaking into private equity from consulting 4 5y
+26 Pre-PE Associate Travel during COVID-19 5 6y
+26 Up for promotion to senior associate - ask for a sabbatical? 5 1y
+26 Want to get into PE but dont know where to start 12 1y
+26 Size of Deals on Resume for PE Recruiting 16 4y
+26 How to Tell a PE Firm is the Right Fit 11 2y
+26 DD lists are so fucking long 5 4y
+26 BB IB or MM PE Analyst 9 1y
+26 Oncycle From Outside NYC 9 2y
+26 Leaving IB - How to Exit Gracefully? 10 5y
+26 Landing a Growth Buyout Role - Frustrated 5 3y
+26 An Inconvenient Fact: Private Equity Returns & The Billionaire Factory 5 6y
+26 How Committed Are You to On-Cycle Recruiting? 11 3y
+26 LBO - Seller's Note? 4 7y
+26 LBO Model Help 9 4y
+26 London vs US for PE in Long-term? (2023 editiion) 5 3y
+26 Are you guys using AI to do your PE work? 13 4mo
+26 Incoming Lehigh Student- Reality for IB/PE? 7 8mo
+26 Does it make sense to try and lateral from a small investment firm to a LBO Fund or larger BDC after a year? 18 5y
+26 Modeling Holdco & Opco 6 6y
+26 MBB to PE (megafund) in Europe - feasibility and how to position profile? 3 6y
+26 PE in India from US BB Analyst 6 6y
+26 Beginner's Guide to Building an Angel Investment Portfolio - Part Two 9 6y
+26 Hg Capital's Reputation in Europe? 44 2y
+26 PE in Asia / HK 14 6y
+26 Ares buying LGP...now what? 8 3mo
+26 GPA FOR PE??!! 26 8mo
+26 Working in very small deal teams 3 8mo
+26 West Cost IB to NYC PE - On-Cycle Recruiting Logistics 13 1y
+26 Securing a secondment 4 6y

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