Book Recomendation
Starting as an underwriting associate at a private equity debt fund. Might someone have any book recommendations?
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Based on the most helpful WSO content, here are some excellent book recommendations to help you get up to speed as an underwriting associate at a private equity debt fund:
Private Debt/Mezzanine Lending:
Distressed Debt and Credit:
Private Equity and Leveraged Buyouts:
General Private Equity Knowledge:
Corporate Finance and Valuation:
These books will provide a solid foundation in underwriting, private equity debt, and related areas. Good luck in your new role!
Sources: Books relevant for PE/VC Professionals, PE, VC, IBD recommended reading list, Books on Private Debt/Mezz/Etc..., Best books to read to get me up to speed at a distressed debt hedge fund?, https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forum/investment-banking/literature-to-determine-if-pe-is-a-fit?customgpt=1
You can't go wrong with What It Takes by Stephen Schwarzman.
yeah if you like self-aggrandizing slop
It’s such slop bro. You can tell he wrote it too because it’s just all over the pace. I feel like he jus spoke into recorder and had it printed out from that
Fortune Favours the Drunk by Pete Stevenson gives a pretty good look at Infra PE, as well as sales and trading. I enjoyed it.
Billion dollar loser
I don’t have a specific debt related book for your industry but I do have a great recommendation if your interested in the development side. Birth of a Building by Ben Stevens is a great book covering the fundamentals of CRE development.
Ron Chernow's biography of Ulysses S Grant.
Sam Zell - Am I Being Too Subtle is a solid read.
good read if you're living in 1980
Came out in 2017, wouldn’t have been possible unfortunately
I love the Sam Zell book and listen to every podcast of Sam that I can find.
Another book that came out in 2017, that gives a sci-fi glimpse of the future (2050 - 2100) is “Immortal Life: A Soon to be True Story” written by Stanley Bing, the pen name of a CBS media executive who died in 2020. Great audiobook in the author’s voice you can borrow from your local library.
Reading the Good Reads criticisms, people in 2017 didn’t get what we are waking up to in 2026 with AI, robots and drones everywhere, digital cloning, government corporatocracy in the US, 3D printing your wiener when you are 130 years old and want to have sex, bombing data centers as a form of terrorism against hyperscaler power, etc. Under appreciated in 2017. Feels more and more real in 2026.
While the sci-fi is exaggerated, it’s very possible. What are the inputs that make this future world work? What does the built environment look like?
Great audiobook to let your imagination fly. Then, work backwards from that future and make your mark.
Other people’s money. Awesome book. Someone said the sam zell one which is also wonderful.
Bit longer but Barbarians at the Gate
I recommend the book “Negotiating Commercial Real Estate Leases” that was given to me in my analyst training program (one of the best in the industry). I read it when I was starting out.
Ultimately, commercial real estate is meant to be a box that can generate cash flow. The amount, duration, nature of the stability of this cash flow is negotiated into a contract. Learn how to structure opportunities and shape risk and reward. Start with leases, but lessons are applicable to many other situations like debt instruments.
Every undergrad student should try to take a business law course.
The Real Estate Game
Master all of Gallinelli books like you can write each chapter in your sleep and reproduce his mini-uw models blindfolded. It's one thing to read his ~3 books, and it is another thing to commit them to mind and hand. This by far, and then The Real Estate game. If you have any time left over -- Linneman as a workbook you work through in Excel and don't move to the next chapter until you understand what you entered into each sheet. Congrats, you now have a master's degree lite in RE Fin!
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