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+3 Shore Capital Partners 1 3d
+3,172 8 years old with no finance experience, too late to get into PE? 116 3d
+35 Mainsail Partners - Culture, Comp, Work / Life Balance 28 3d
+11 2nd Year PE Analyst Seeking Advice 3 1w
+63 Q&A: (if interested) Autistic in PE 29 1w
+12 MS Private Equity (Expansion Capital) Info/Culture/Comp/Reputation 7 1w
+12 BDT & MSD Interview 1 2w
+3 Experience with KKR Capstone? 4 2w
+5 Alpine Investors - Thoughts? 26 3w
0 Chicago Buyside Tech / Tech Services Investing 3 3w
+15 PE Associate role at Temasek in SF 23 1mo
+105 Part of carried interest for Sr. Associate/VP in a small PE fund 76 1mo
+40 Value of MBA in Private Credit 11 1mo
+57 Management Option Pools in LBO Models 22 1mo
+2 GPA & Major for PE 4 1mo
0 Thoughts on MHR? 2 1mo
0 How to break into Private Equity/ Private Credit in Chicago? 3 1mo
+20 Career Dilemma...to PE or not to PE 6 1mo
+46 Career dilemma >> LDN MM PE > NYC: Lateral here or MBA? 29 1mo
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+6 Family Office LP Roles 1 2mo
+92 Arctos Sports Partners / Sports Private Equity 21 2mo
+6 Vista Private Equity Summer Analyst 2022 51 2mo
+3 Waud Capital - Culture and Comps 4 2mo
+111 Is LMM actually the move? 35 3mo
+45 Best GE/UMM/MF for Pay::Culture/WLB/Perks 59 3mo
+232 2019 On-Cycle PE Recruiting: Headhunter Ranking 49 3mo
+15 Recruiters in Asia (HK / SG) 7 3mo
+22 Good shops in Cleveland 19 3mo
+12 On-Cycle PE from Private Credit 8 3mo
+5 Oncap (Toronto PE) 5 3mo
+9 KPS 4 3mo
+8 Pitch me an LBO candidate - idea generation 4 3mo
+48 PE Associate Recruiting with Business School Deferred Admission 15 3mo
+9 Chicago LMM PE Reputation Check 7 3mo
+10 Summer Internship Help: Ocean Park vs. True North M&A 1 3mo
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0 Networking Outside Your Firm 1 3mo
0 Asset Management vs Trading 1 3mo
+6 TDR Capital 11 3mo
+10 Brighton Park Capital? 10 3mo
+38 Private Equity in Singapore 18 4mo
+9 Debating between NYC & SF postgrad -- just curious about city life in finance 3 4mo
+25 PE Secondaries- Excel Case Study 26 4mo
+21 Thompson Street Capital 15 4mo
+2 PE value creation / portco support comp 1 4mo
+9 How would you approach pitching a sponsor-backed deal? 1 4mo
+15 Deutsche Bank Global Credit Trading 14 4mo
+189 LOL at this new WSJ article on Apollo's Culture 60 4mo
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+27 Creativity Eclipsing the JAMMBOs 1 4mo
+935 My Private Equity Recruiting Process 135 4mo
+32 Master 'Breaking into Private Equity' Thread 11 4mo
+40 FoF Secondaries Case Study 29 4mo
+31 Laid Off.. Career Decision (NEED ADVICE) 18 4mo
+33 Corporate / Business Development Exits 27 4mo
+70 Chicago PE firms (comprehensive list and tiers) 74 4mo
+5 Wind Point Partners 2025 Comp? 6 4mo
+12 Chicago Pacific Founders in 2022 10 5mo
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+7 Adams Street Partners Secondaries Group 13 5mo
+15 CAIA Debate 5 5mo
+57 PE interview at VP / Principal level 33 5mo
+11 Experience and things to do as a PE hopeful in the future. 2 5mo
+19 CIA Freshman Year Internship for Finance 11 5mo
+72 Prioritizing Firms for On-Cycle 24 5mo
+44 Growth PE Comp Progression 24 5mo
+21 PE Associate Comp Benchmarking 26 5mo
+30 2025-26 Target Tier List for IB/PE 13 6mo
+21 Blackstone Innovation Investments (BXII) 8 6mo
+29 Marlin Equity: rep, performance and interview process 54 6mo
+11 Infra PE: I Squared Capital Reputation/Thoughts? 8 6mo
+3 US Family Office Trend Question 1 6mo
+659 Then and Now: @APAE 149 6mo
+7 Associate 1 Pay Range at Midwest LMM PE 12 6mo
+23 HPS investment partners 39 6mo
+21 Deleted 9 6mo
+10 Certares Management (Travel and leisure PE) 8 6mo
+63 One Rock Capital - Thoughts? 68 6mo
+3 PPC 3 6mo
+37 What’s the Coolest Place a Legit PE Firm is Based in North America? 24 6mo
+14 Portfolio Monitoring Software 7 6mo
+110 Best Book(s) / Playbook(s) on PE Due Diligence / Value Creation 40 6mo
+66 Difficult ASO Class in MF PE 49 7mo
+16 Silver Lake - Analyst (London) 10 7mo
+28 Vector Capital 19 7mo
+64 The Real Large-cap Corporate PE Placement by Bank 28 7mo
+8 Non-Compete at the Analyst level 8 7mo
+8 What are the best Private Equity firms in Chicago at the moment? 10 7mo
+18 Anyone have any insight on Paine Schwartz Partners? 12 7mo
0 Breaking into IB/PE/CRE as a freshman in college (Cliche question, I know) 2 8mo
+9 WestCap 3 8mo
+27 Starting your own fund is paradise 4 8mo
+15 Email in LinkedIn bio 7 8mo
+67 Peak Rock Capital in Austin 45 8mo
+29 Details on JMI Equity Analyst Program? 13 8mo
+22 Goldman Sachs Growth 28 8mo
+35 Direct Lending for Early-Stage Companies? 7 8mo

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  • Morgan Stanley 02 98.8%
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  • BMO Capital Markets 12 97.7%
  • Banco Santander 01 97.1%

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  • Morgan Stanley 05 98.3%
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