0 Negotiating contract without a headhunter 0 18y
+16 When is carried interest paid? 11 18y
0 List of Shops - Info Requested if Available 2 18y
0 PE For Industry group analysts 5 18y
0 Rubenstein at PE Conference, Thoughts? 3 18y
0 Which top fund will go bust? 7 18y
0 Having trouble understanding how PE shops make money off of an LBO... 3 18y
0 Getting in 14 18y
0 My Exit Opps? 1 18y
+18 Hours at a PE/HF? 6 18y
0 Pay cut moving from sell-side to PE? 1 18y
0 Private Equity Salaries Associate 2006 1 18y
0 Modeling - Been working in MM leveraged finance 5 18y
0 Wachovia Capital Partners 5 18y
0 Forward Year Recruiting 1 18y
0 Pros and Cons of unique situation...(Help) 5 18y
0 Avista Capital Partners 1 18y
0 Can I have a good experience at a family-owned PE firm? 4 18y
0 I need to quit and get out asap 5 18y
+12 Blackstone PE Analyst Program HOURS 31 18y
0 Timeline? 6 18y
0 Should a private equity buy Celestica 2 18y
0 Typical Salary 0 18y
0 Citi - M&A, Communications group (M&T) Place for PE 3 18y
0 Has anyone ever heard of Platform Equity/Blue Tiger? 0 18y
0 M & A, lev fin, sponsors or industry? 1 18y
0 Lion Capital and HM Capital 3 18y
0 CMF Associates 1 18y
0 Capitve Private Equity Funds v Independent Private Equity Firms 2 18y
0 JF Lehman? 2 18y
0 How will I know when I've found a quality PE shop? 8 18y
0 $4 B Interview 2 18y
0 Tombstones 0 18y
0 Criteria for evaluating PE investments - need help 6 18y
0 Middle Market PE Pay 9 18y
0 Seconadries and co-investments 0 18y
0 Bain to Bain Capital Timeline 0 18y
+18 how hard is it to move from dcm/ecm to pe? 13 18y
+9 Hellman & Friedman 8 18y
0 2 Years PE Experience (3 by b-school matriculation) 2 18y
0 PE bonus 14 18y
+30 Small PE shop or b-school first? 29 18y
0 fund of funds pay + bonus 0 18y
0 heitman... 1 18y
0 Knightsbridge 3 18y
0 how can you tell whether a mid-market PE shop is "good"? 2 18y
0 Risks of Joining a Newly Formed Middle Market PE Fund 10 18y
0 ranking/biggest PE FoF 9 18y
+9 Does College Matter Anymore? 8 18y
0 Shorting Blackstone 7 18y
0 start in P/E 7 18y
0 Private Equity Funds- Future Opportunities 0 18y
0 Chances of entering PE without banking? 15 18y
0 GS PIA Technology Group 0 18y
0 VantagePoint Venture Partners 2 18y
0 PE Shops - Listings 5 18y
0 Accounting to Analyst 5 18y
0 PE International creates first ever rankings of pe firms 9 19y
0 PE Financial Analyst 2 19y
+1 Middle Market PE - Comp Difference btwn Pre- and Post- MBA associate 2 19y
0 Process of getting/finding a summer itnernship in PE? 11 19y
0 IB PE Post-MBA Associate or Tier 1 PE firm Pre-MBA associate 4 19y
0 Any benefit at junior levels from Blackstone IPO? 3 19y
0 Recruiting timeline? 2 19y
0 infrastructure investment 5 19y
0 Goldman Sachs PE internship? 17 19y
0 walton st capital 2 19y
0 Do PE firms hire International Students? 15 19y
0 Iridium Partners 0 19y
0 CRT Capital Holdings LLC 1 19y
0 Private Equity Valuation Models 10 19y
0 Private equity interview guide questions 11 19y
0 What is top pay 4 19y
+4 Carlyle vs Goldman Out of Undergrad? 12 19y
0 What it takes (requirements) to attain a position at Blackstone/Carlyle 1 19y
0 How many billion dollar PE shops are out there? 4 19y
0 what do associates/analysts do? 6 19y
0 Head of Blackstone (Schwarzman) biography? 8 19y
0 Interview Help - Position out of undergrad 3 19y
0 Private Equity Business Model 3 19y
0 work for ib pe arm as an associate? 3 19y
0 PE Pay 54 19y
0 LFG/FSG --> PE 6 19y
0 Interview with KKR/Capstone 6 19y
0 Metalmark Capital... 2 19y
0 PE Signing Bonus 1 19y
0 Does anyone have suggestions on how to research some of the lesser known PE firms - middle market. 5 19y
+18 Blackstone, Equity Office bonds & strategies 6 19y
0 quality of life - investment banking vs. pe 14 19y
0 Newbridge Capital -- thoughts? 1 19y
+7 Financial Engineering and PE 11 19y
0 Blackstone - UG Summer Intern 14 19y
0 Morgan Stanley's $8Bn RE Opp fund 1 19y
0 I am seeking to meet people within a mid-size PE fund that is looking to add experienced bankers 6 19y
0 Different PE firms, what do people think of them? Have you worked at any of these? 1 19y
0 MBO V.S. LBO 5 19y

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