+20 Low EBITDA margin, low ROIC business? 3 6y
+31 Corp Dev LBO returns question: Levered and Unlevered IRR 15 6y
+11 Best Industries for small PE funds? 5 6y
+34 Family Offices List 15 6y
+76 Vice President Fund Carry/Equity 29 6y
+5 What do you think it will be like for those of us starting an associate program this summer? What should we be thinking about? 3 6y
+3 Help learn commercial and financial analysis/ CIM 1 6y
+12 PE Credit Associate (Day-to-Day) and Interview 1 6y
+11 COVID impact on LBO debt 4 6y
+25 Bad time to switch jobs? 6 6y
+40 PE in economic recession 19 6y
+19 Company issued $400 million ten-year bond. Hopelessly in debt? 9 6y
+3 Pitchbook Webinar: Covid-19's impact on private markets 1 6y
+9 Landscape Platform 1 6y
+6 What is "Cash recorded in A/P"? 2 6y
+3 Rosenbaum existing goodwill LBO - urgent help 1 6y
+22 Why Megafund?— Interview Answers 8 6y
+12 Modelling based on CIM 1 6y
+68 How to Approach Proprietary Deal Idea 19 6y
+12 Summer 2020 PE Offer Situation 1 6y
+7 Firms for VDD? 4 6y
+16 Excess Cash, Total Cash, and Enterprise Value - Interview question 3 6y
+13 Livestream With Three Finance Rockstars (Blackstone, Carlyle, TA Associates) 1 6y
+22 HSW MBA Summer for Upper MM / Megafund PE? 1 6y
+14 Capex revolver 5 6y
+37 LMM & MM PE: Double-down on or skip the MBA? 4 6y
+18 Thoughts On MMPE Riverside Company for SA/FT 3 6y
0 If I took 7 and a half hours to schedule my interview after receiving an interview invitation, did I ruin my chance being hired? 8 6y
+12 Checkup on EBITDA calculation 3 6y
+19 Livestream Q&A With Three Finance Rockstars (Blackstone, Carlyle, TA Associates) StanfordGSB2020's picture 1 6y
+20 More PE bubble stuff - Is PE Having Its WeWork Moment…??? 9 6y
+13 EBITDA adjustments in CIMs? 3 6y
+9 Switching PE firm (and hopefully being promoted to associate) 1 6y
+19 LBO sensitivity table - sense check? 4 6y
+12 Private equity pitch help 1 6y
+13 It's a Recession, buckle up 1 6y
+9 SWF based in the Gulf - how easy is it to come back to the UK / US? 1 6y
+50 Private Equity Bonuses 2019 65 6y
+18 Corp M&A to Private Equity 3 6y
+9 Macquarie Capital Solutions - Thoughts 1 6y
+21 ADVICE - Opportunity to Start a PE Fund 1 6y
+3 PE offer & Coronavirus 1 6y
+10 Coronavirus impact on valuations 2 6y
+17 List of firms recruiting at the post MBA level 4 6y
+3 What is the average beta for private equity real estate funds? 1 6y
+15 BB Associate to PE / family office - off cycle recruiting 3 6y
+18 LBO target screening criterion? Looking to use CapIQ screener to find targets 1 6y
+9 PE portfolio analyst career progression 1 6y
+53 Q&A: Charting your career 9 6y
+17 Are there PE funds with pleasant cultures? 5 6y
+12 Evaluating Lower Mid Market PE opportunity 1 6y
+6 Join this discussion if you missed the #'RonaRally. Yes you can make money on the way down, and on the way up, in the same day. 1 6y
+5 Excel showing 0.5% x 100 = 1.5?? 4 6y
+42 KKR vs Carlyle vs Warburg - URGENT 29 6y
+5 Do Pension Funds or any institutional Investors out there invest in startups? 1 6y
+9 How to build consensus despite disagreements / differences? 1 6y
+11 "ETFs" for private equity? 1 6y
+9 How best to communicate PE experience in a much smaller market 1 6y
+3 BD internship in a well-performing PE firm? 1 6y
+12 Adjusting FSM and LBO model for Q3 1 6y
+13 Identifying Turnaround Targets 9 6y
+4 Cost of Capital in Private Equity and available datasets? 4 6y
+13 Delete 1 6y
+27 Ever feel like you’re stuck in PE? 12 6y
+3 A resume that’s too jumpy? 1 6y
+21 What kind of work do MBB consulting firms do for PE firms? 4 6y
+10 Breaking back into PE post-MBA 3 6y
+12 WSO PE Guide - Basic LBO #3 4 6y
+13 Corporate Development to Private Credit Fund? 4 6y
+22 Final Interview Lunch Significance? 6 6y
+16 PE Technicals & situational questions 2 6y
+9 Sophomore, First time preparing PE interview 2 6y
+12 Private investment strategies that are more friendly to people from diverse backgrounds? 1 6y
+15 Distressed / special situation - animosity-filled or tight-knit community? 3 6y
+21 Got led on by a boutique PE/Search Fund...offered me an unpaid internship 14 6y
+12 Efficiently Processing Incoming Bids 1 6y
+8 Urgent: WSO PE Guide Full LBO Example 3 - Question 5 6y
+10 Buy-side advisors for GP stakes (GP Investing - 'Fund of Firms') 2 6y
+6 Biggest assh*** you met / most toxic environment you’ve been in? 4 6y
+18 Alternative Forms of Subscription Financing/Callable Capital LOC? 2 6y
+14 No learning curve on internship 6 6y
+12 Megafund Credit vs. Hedge Fund Credit? 1 6y
+34 Forgot the firm’s investment strategy 1 6y
+3 Late to Recruiting, but Interview Ready 1 6y
+11 Grower baskets in leveraged finance 6 6y
+6 Ask Me Anything (Q&A): Recruiting for European PE largecap 3 6y
+4 Is special situations investing still growing? 2 6y
+12 buy and build literature 5 6y
+9 PE Interview Pitch Specificity 1 6y
+22 Negotiating pay raise with inter-company conflicts 3 6y
+3 HELP! PE/HFs with the following characteristics? 1 6y
+5 The Oxbridge Group - Pre-MBA PE Initial Recruiting Interview 4 6y
+6 LBO - Why is revenue seasonality a problem? 4 6y
+3 How to Excel at Summer Internship? 1 6y
+11 What happens to investments past a fund's life cycle? 1 6y
+20 Revolver Accounting in Interview LBO Models 4 6y
+14 How to do well in unstructured environment? 2 6y
+3 Case Study - Discuss Sensitivity Tables/ Model Output 1 6y
+103 (Mis)adventures in PE fundraising (part 2) 15 6y
+26 LBO Urgent advice - why subtract dividends from sponsor equity 7 6y

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