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+20 1 Thing in Common Among PE Associates 40 14y
0 EnCap Investments L.P. - Salary & Bonus - Information Technology (IT) Data 14y
0 Advent International Corporation - Salary & Bonus - Private Equity Data 14y
0 Sequoia Capital - Salary & Bonus - Equities Data 14y
0 New World Capital Group - Salary & Bonus - conglomerate Data 14y
0 ABL or Credit Underwriting to PE 0 14y
0 5AM Ventures - Salary & Bonus - Financial Services Data 14y
0 Vice President - PE Firm Interviews? 4 14y
+21 Leverage Finance to Private Equity 5 14y
0 Credit Suisse Customized Fund Investment Group (CFIG) Interview 6 14y
0 Ben Franklin Capital Partners - Review - Municipal Muni Data 14y
0 Abbott Capital - Salary & Bonus - Leveraged Finance Data 14y
0 PE firms that invest in public sector services companies 4 14y
0 TPG Global - Salary & Bonus - Growth Data 14y
0 Anyone with GP & LP experience? 12 14y
0 Anyone heard of this company? 1 14y
0 Hamilton Lane - Salary & Bonus - Research Data 14y
0 Hamilton Lane - Review - Research Data 14y
+3 Management/ Transcation Fees in PE 3 14y
0 Accel Partners - Review - Analyst- Equities Data 14y
+27 Beginner LBO Modeling questions 8 14y
0 American Securities - Salary & Bonus - Equity Research Data 14y
+18 Fellow Monkey Needs Help in Angel Investment 7 14y
0 Nashville Capital Network - Review - Other Data 14y
0 Is a decline in the alternative investments industry (including PE) inevitable? 6 14y
+25 Short-Form LBO Modeling? 14 14y
0 Summer Analyst Interview coming up 3 14y
0 Secondaries - Career thoughts? 0 14y
0 Apex Venture Partners - Salary & Bonus - Venture Capital Data 14y
0 So what exactly happened...? 15 14y
0 Sound Harbor Partners 0 14y
0 JRK Property Holdings - Review - Investors Data 14y
0 Private Equity SA 9 14y
0 Fundamental Capital - Review - Private Equity Data 14y
+121 Non-Street Firm = Non-Street Comp 84 14y
0 Audax Group - Salary & Bonus - Generalist Data 14y
0 GPA / Transcripts for PE 14 14y
0 Ennovance Capital 4 14y
+8 Asking your own firm for funding 3 14y
0 Credit agreement vote 7 14y
0 Avenue Capital 1 14y
0 Jefferies Capital Partners 0 14y
+2 Possible risks of a pre-mature IPO? 3 14y
0 Long Point Capital - Salary & Bonus - Equity Research Data 14y
0 Bain Responds to Attacks on Job Killing 12 14y
0 Fixing the branding problem with a top JD 8 14y
0 Private Equity preMBA Associate Comp 2 14y
0 Shamrock Holdings - Salary & Bonus - Shamrock Capital Advisors Data 14y
0 What M&A Slowdown? 1 14y
+12 PE clarification 14 14y
0 PE Firms 7 14y
0 Sverica International - Salary & Bonus - Corporate Finance Data 14y
0 Commodities focused PEs 8 14y
0 QVT Mount Auburn Capital Partners LP - Salary & Bonus - Real Estate Data 14y
+18 Help!! LBO of a leasing company; include interest on capital leases in pre-financing fcf? 6 14y
0 Audax Group - Salary & Bonus - Private Equity Data 14y
0 INTERN POSITION: TRIAL PERIOD 8 14y
0 The Entrepreneur State - Safety Nets for Startups 1 14y
0 RainMakers Private Equity 3 14y
0 Interview with Siguler Guff 1 14y
+15 Rise of Super Angels - short, interesting article 1 14y
0 Pushing Back 3 14y
0 Calvert Street Capital Partners - Salary & Bonus - Private Equity Data 14y
0 swaps curve building 3 14y
+13 Turnaround PE (SBs Awarded!!!) 5 14y
+7 Anyone with CapIQ want to help? 5 14y
0 GS IBD or Bain to build PE Resume 15 14y
+23 Excess cash flow formula 6 14y
0 Hamilton Lane - Review - Fund Investment Team Data 14y
+32 Should I switch from REPE to traditional PE? 34 14y
0 PE timeline this season 0 14y
+7 Critique my resume, advice? 4 14y
+9 pe internship on resume 10 14y
0 PE Against the Ropes 2 14y
0 Sequoia Capital - Salary & Bonus Data 14y
+24 Just Raised an Angel round.... 19 14y
0 J. C. Flowers & Co. - Salary & Bonus Data 14y
0 Apollo Global Management - Salary & Bonus - Private Equity Data 14y
0 Prestige of Undergrad degree and private equity 5 14y
0 If Mitt Romney Gets Elected PE Firms Returning 30% IRRs for Teacher's Pension Funds? 1 14y
0 first MM PE phone interview 3 14y
0 Credit Rating for Debt in an LBO 7 14y
0 PE MO/BO position 1 14y
0 PE FIRM in sights 5 14y
0 How to reject tender offer in startups? 2 14y
0 New Fund Marketing materials 1 14y
+23 PE Analyst 16 14y
0 Why do PE Firms Issue Debt for their Own Holdings? (i.e. mezz) 6 14y
0 Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network 1 14y
+12 Free Distressed ebook 5 14y
0 MBA Summer Internship 1 14y
0 Why *private*? 4 14y
0 Private Equity 2011 Year in Review 3 14y
+15 Can I ask a Megafund client to coffee? 3 14y
+31 Romney "looting" example - please explain these profits 26 14y
+6 GUYSSSSSSS SOME ONE RECRUIT THESE KIDS!!! 11 14y
+18 Modify Resume before PE interview? 4 14y
0 Vid: 4 Transactions of Bain Capital under Romney 6 14y
0 WSJ: "The buyout business has become downright mundane." 5 14y

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  • Ardian 98.5%
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