Value-oriented PE London

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New to WSO and have been doing some research regarding contrarian / value-oriented PE in London as I'd be interested to see alternatives to the usual suspects (Apollo) . Would anyone be able to help with some names and strategies? Also, is Oaktree European Principal their PE arm ?

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Would OAK European Principal be comparable? How are them in London? 

 

Lone star is a good one and I believe Grayken lives in london. Have heard mixed things about working at hudson as a junior but mandate-wise they’re interesting 

 
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As a fund, Lone star has a very flexible mandate and looks at a variety of sectors and asset classes. I believe they just recently closed a large RE oppurtunistic fund. Hudson hires corp PE and RE PE. They've done some very interesting deals in London in the past. The uncertainty comes up with Hudson/Lone Star. How I understand it is that as a junior working for Hudson you have less oversight into the investment/deal process, and you're more focused on simply underwriting deal by deal without seeing the broader picture (at least compared to junior experience at similar funds). From an interview by John Grayken I read, this seems somewhat by design (perform at Hudson, get called up to Lone star). Anyone who works there want to chime in, would be very helpful.

 

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