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bro CS is not GS/MS.
^lol
I'm not going to let this turn into a "rank the megafunds" thread, but a pretty good list can actually be found on Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_equity_firms
The top 20 by fund size contain all of the firms typically referred to as "megafunds", though you should note that fund size is certainly not a good indicator of prestige, quality, exit ops, pay, or quality of break room coffee.
You'll be hard pressed to call American Securities or First Reserve a meag-fund IMO.
Here's a list of mega-funds, IMO. If you disagree, good for you.
In no particular order:
Apollo KKR Blackstone Warburg Carlyle GS Merchant Banking / Capital Partners / PIA, or whatever they decided to call themselves this season TPG Permira Apax Silver Lake Bain Capital
So Silver Lake is a megafund but First Reserve isn't? Seems to me one is a $14 billion fund focused on technology and one is a $20 billion fund focused on energy. Just curious on your reasoning?
Add Cerberus and Oaktree to the list.
i go by an easy definition
$15B+
is OTTP considered truly a megafund, my friends in banking always said they do not pay that much as other places.
It may not pay as much because it's a pension, after all, but it does megafund sized deals and is a well respected investor. Also, I hear lifestyle's decent.
Probably best not to get all that caught up in definitions of "megafunds". There's no hard and fast rule anyway.
Agreed, from what I heard the lifestyle is way better than like the ONCAPs of the world. Would say the same with even their trading team over there.
You guys call - 80 hours a week with lots of weekend work good ? Oncap at least pays decent. At OTTP you make less than a banker on a per hour basis.
Cinven is pretty big here in the UK, one of the older more prestigious ones..
Not sure how to define megafunds but if you're looking at firms that look at big deals, we often include a lot of the firms above and a few others to processes we run for larger companies (fluid definition of larger company). The others that we call are H&F,THL, CD&R, Leonard Green and occassionally MDP and increasingly, per the poster above, a couple of the european funds - BC and CVC
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