+19 Evaluating Profitability of Private Equity Funds while Recruiting? 3 8y
+12 Double Major or Single Major w/personal learning 1 8y
+11 Internship: secondary PE or boutique IB for direct PE? 6 8y
+23 Breaking into MM PE post MBA with prior IBD experience (An Int'l in the US) 6 8y
+6 IFC Investment Analyst Offers (DC) 7 8y
+3 Private Equity Interview Course / Supporting Excel Files 1 8y
+12 Transitioning from law to PE 1 8y
+11 Restructuring / Distressed Companies 10 8y
+21 Deal vs Ops Side in PE 3 8y
+61 Lateraling PE to PE 13 8y
+20 Women in Private Equity? 13 8y
+14 MoIC computation 4 8y
+1 Beware GoBuyside 3 8y
+13 Consulting placement from private equity rotations into private equity firms 4 8y
+11 How to position myself to get into a private equity small-mid cap buyout fund 4 8y
+3 What CRM/Project Management SW do you use for deals? 1 8y
+3 Private Equity consultant interview 1 8y
+12 Portfolio Tracking for Angel Fund 1 8y
+22 Co-investments -> M7 MBA -> Direct PE? 6 8y
+9 E&Y TAS to PE/IB Industry 3 8y
+57 Bain Capital Internship Interview 83 8y
+31 LBO on a $15,000 Website? 9 8y
+27 Infrastructure or Real Estate PE? 8 8y
+1 What happened at The Abraaj Group? 1 8y
+11 any way to get involved with Y Combinator, Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz etc as an undergrad ? 7 8y
+7 How Many Deals on Experienced Resume 3 8y
+14 Follow-on investments in portfolio companies 2 8y
+8 PE Offer: References from Current Employer Required? 4 8y
+6 LBO Model Practice 1 8y
+28 Post MBA to PE - should I even bother? 9 8y
+51 How to Stall Exploding PE Offer 24 8y
+39 Stay at BB (keep looking for opportunities) or go to no-name PE 6 8y
+12 Background Check - comparing unofficial to official transcripts 2 8y
+18 Models - Monthly or Quarterly / Annual 17 8y
+22 How to discuss deals experience when you dissented AGAINST an investment? 1 8y
+3 Detailed income statement projection model 1 8y
+38 Can a company survive perpetually under successive LBOs? 7 8y
+8 Move to lower-MM vs staying at BB? 3 8y
+46 Revenue and COGS build 8 8y
+14 T2 Mgmt Consultant to MM PE... What're interviews like? 3 8y
+9 Looking for Advanced Excel Financial Modeling Course Specifically for Equity Deals 3 8y
+45 Instructions lacking clarity 7 8y
+18 Free Cash Flow Iteration 2 8y
+151 A Non-Target's Perspective - My MM PE Recruiting Process 40 8y
0 PE internship as an Ugrad? Which Internship? 19 8y
+33 Post-MBA PE Recruiting - HBS 34 8y
0 American capital - Any experiences? 19 8y
+21 Specific PE 12 8y
+13 Family Office Experience 24 8y
+25 Learning more about Private Equity 46 8y
+38 2 Years IB + 2 Years PE 23 8y
+25 Due diligence in private equity 9 8y
+3 Primal Alpha Beast if you're going this 1 8y
+4 Paper LBOs 5 8y
+23 Information on comp at early stage venture firms? 2 8y
+15 Getting references from analysts 1 8y
+18 golf course interview 14 8y
+39 Was recently invited into the next fund.... 1 8y
+3 Infra fund interview - Analyst position 1 8y
+38 Small Private Equity Fun (USD 100m AUM) - Thoughts on life in small PE? 10 8y
+71 How to ask someone for a job 61 8y
+13 DREAM scenario, share your thoughts! 1 8y
+21 Figuring out a path from credit investing to private equity 1 8y
+35 How difficult is it to break in from a low-tier BB? 6 8y
+8 Follow-Up Headhunter Meetings 9 8y
+21 Private Equity Hierarchy 10 8y
+10 LBO: Debt Free Cash Free Quick Q 4 8y
+21 Questions for Infrastructure PE Investors 2 8y
+12 Bain Cap vs. BCV interview 1 8y
+34 Best summer option for breaking into Private Equity post-MBA 7 8y
+16 Private Equity vs. M&A in 2017 5 8y
+25 All things equal: would a sponsor rather have an increase of 3% in cash interest or PIK interest? 3 8y
+12 Help on Universe of Funds / Alt Ams that Make Highly Structured Investments 1 8y
+21 Paying more attention to the technology running portfolio companies 1 8y
+29 Looking for Advice - MBA PE Recruiting 9 8y
+21 BDC Price/NAV Question 1 8y
+12 Career Advice Needed 1 8y
+12 How does one apply to the new analyst and summer analyst (from undergraduate programmes)? 1 8y
+33 Capital Structure for Private Acquisitions Under $20M? 3 8y
+32 Joining PE during fund raising - Associate / MM 6 8y
+27 Thomson Reuters in Talks to Sell Stake in Unit to Blackstone 6 8y
+8 Acronym HELP 4 8y
+16 PE Portfolio Valuations Associate Jobs 2 8y
+24 WSO Basic LBO Model #1 5 8y
+3 M&A Info - Public Company buys Private Company 1 8y
+12 Questions to ask in an interview to a Partner 1 8y
+13 PE Portfolio Company to PE 4 8y
+4 WL Ross & Co / WLR Credit Partners 2 8y
+32 Difference between LBO and DCF 18 8y
+12 Do I have shot of getting in? 1 8y
+21 Additional Transaction Sheet 5 8y
+12 Consulting-like cases PE interviews 4 8y
+12 TMT question 1 8y
+12 LBO-Modeling Case Interview - Completed Model but Fucked Up with Iterations? 2 8y
+13 How to Amortize A Balloon Loan? 4 8y
+13 Question - LBO Case Study? 4 8y
+17 UVA McIntire - Not Great for Buyside 5 8y
+3 Operating Partner interview 1 8y
+42 PE vs. IB out of college 29 8y
+14 Private Nonbank Lender Valuation 4 8y

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  • JPMorgan 01 98.2%
  • Guggenheim Partners 01 97.7%
  • Morgan Stanley 07 97.1%

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  • Morgan Stanley 01 98.8%
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  • BMO Capital Markets 12 97.6%
  • Banco Santander 01 97.1%

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