0 Anyone have insights on Lindsay Goldberg and General Atlantic? 3 9y
0 Delete DeleteDeleteDeleteDeleteDeleteDeleteDelete 1 9y
+42 Deal Origination Call Tips 23 9y
0 Roles within Private Equity? 3 9y
0 Asset Managers - PE Investment? 2 9y
+52 Let's talk PE "culture" 49 9y
0 Latest Gobuyside comp study? 2 9y
0 Liberty Lane Partners LLC - Has anyone heard of them? 8 9y
+20 Lasalle Investment Management - Analyst Program 12 9y
0 Carlyle Email format 8 9y
+4 Info on Lone Star Funds 2 9y
+31 Pre - IPO Valuation Question 10 9y
+15 Sources & Uses Table in Growth Capital Deal 4 9y
+12 Best MBAs for Private Equity/Debt? 0 9y
+16 Funds of Funds and Secondary Fund question 4 9y
+45 Leaving IB early after accepting PE offer 22 9y
+34 Athletes in PE 31 9y
+28 How can I make $5000 - in my situation? 8 9y
+20 Goodwill Creation for Minority Investment Deal 2 9y
0 direct advertising vs brand advertising 3 9y
+16 PE acquisition growth opportunities 3 9y
+48 Horsepower: Why hasn't PE scooped up Ralph Lauren? 18 9y
0 How do activist funds screen for targets? 0 9y
0 Pre-MBA internship at distressed PE/activist fund? 0 9y
+11 LBO implied purchase multiple from IRR 3 9y
0 Accel-KKR question 2 9y
+4 Anyone go from IB associate to a venture fund? 3 9y
+28 Buyout of private companies - which Shareholder's Equity components? 3 9y
+13 JMI Equity: interview process, culture, pay, hours? 19 9y
+14 CIM Group Information 21 9y
0 Family Office Salary 0 9y
0 Sun Capital Partners 4 9y
0 Visualizing PEs with less than $500m AUM 2 9y
0 Middlemarch Partners, Agamya Capital 0 9y
0 Securing a Private Equity Summer Shadow 0 9y
+8 Trading stocks while working at a PE firm? 9 9y
0 Starr Investment Holdings 1 9y
0 Realistic? 0 9y
+39 Q&A: Operational Due Diligence Analyst 10 9y
+11 Space fund development efforts in 2017? 3 9y
+24 'How PE funds can overstate LP returns by up to 50 pct' 9 9y
+17 The Top PE firms Worldwide 9 9y
+184 Life in a small PE group 198 9y
+12 Blackstone PE Internship 20 9y
+76 HELP--Audax Group offer 78 9y
0 ML has a legit PE investment platform?? 0 9y
+24 Industry Specific PE Comp - PE Experts Help Me Out! 3 9y
0 Genstar Capital 2 9y
0 Follow Boss or go off on my own? Experienced advice needed 1 9y
0 Pine Brook Partners 1 9y
+38 Need LBO Model Help 13 9y
0 How to get a PE firm to hire you into a portfolio company? 0 9y
0 Lower MM PE vs Co-Investment PE 1 9y
+19 Impact Investing 3 9y
+36 Networking With Potential Buy-Side Parties? 11 9y
+14 PE Secondaries Advisory Interview 5 9y
0 Remote Private Equity Summer Analyst: is this real? 2 9y
0 Remote PE Internship: is this real? 5 9y
0 PE recruiting question 1 9y
+7 Differences between BB PE funds and independent ones 5 9y
0 2017 Summer Internship 1 9y
0 HELP: Business School convo with head of group at mega fund 3 9y
0 Why do people want to do A&D investing? 1 9y
+21 Crowdsourcing Private Equity Cases 0 9y
+30 Best background for PE 27 9y
0 Technical Question: Depreciation/Half-Year Convention 2 9y
0 Kelso & Company: Interview and Company Info? 0 9y
0 KKR Summer Associate Superday 2 9y
+8 Terra Firma Video Interview 9 9y
+13 What am I doing wrong 6 9y
+72 why is it rare for post-MBA to get in PE without prior PE experience 39 9y
+20 Post-MBA compensation? 11 9y
+12 Closing mechanism - effects on model 0 9y
+6 Vista Equity Partners/Thoma Bravo- what next? 3 9y
+17 Off-cycle PE recruiting 24 9y
+6 Has everyone gotten emails yet 3 9y
0 TA Associates Question 0 9y
+4 [Law in PE] What does the legal team of a private equity firm do? 2 9y
+42 Reaching out directly to PE firms? 15 9y
0 Seller Notes modeling 3 9y
+17 Best approach to estimate sale value? 6 9y
+24 Meeting PE Partner at His Office 11 9y
0 Macquarie Credit Investing Role - Credit Funds Interviews Preparation 1 9y
0 Lump sum payment of land + building + Equipment. Can you amortize loan for land and depreciate for building and equipment? 0 9y
0 For the twats that email me about internships and want an informational interview... 1 9y
0 Does it matter if target LBO firm has a shit ton of debt? 3 9y
0 Transaction Services to Corp Dev 0 9y
0 Any hacks for finding out who the headhunter is representing? 1 9y
0 Buy side recruiting--implications of hedge funds starting? 0 9y
+1 Computer Science Minor? 1 9y
+11 Need Help Understanding Complicated Sources and Uses w/ Equity Rollover being Manipulated 1 9y
0 Blackstone Summer Associate 0 9y
+3 Series 52 1 9y
0 2017 On-Cycle IBD=>PE Timing 0 9y
0 Newbie in PE 0 9y
+8 Blackstone 1 9y
+26 Asked to Cancel Vacation for Deal? 7 9y
0 Economics degree, how to break into private equity? 4 9y
+55 PE Recruiting Season - References for Weak Analysts 14 9y
+14 Currently recruiting for PE, did not receive a return offer from Top BB over summer 2 9y

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