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GTCR: Moving to the Windy City, GTCR is one of the most well-known and established middle-market private equity funds in the world. However, similar to mega funds, it should be noted that upper middlemarket funds like GTCR also get worked pretty hard. And with the firm recently closing a new $3.25
Industry-wise, oil & gas and power & utilities are huge, but sectors like healthcare , financials , and telecom are quite significant as well: Technology has been growing, but it’s still less developed than in regions like London or NY. bulge-bracket banks , such as JPM, GS, MS, and Citi, always rank well in the league tables.
based bulgebrackets (GS, MS, JPM, Citi, and BofA) are the strongest international banks, and Avendus, Kotak, JM Financial, ICICI, and Axis are the strongest domestic firms. You’ll see deals in industrials , technology , healthcare , power , consumer/retail , real estate , and all the other sectors.
but less so in civilized places with functional healthcare systems, such as Europe. Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs paid quite well, with many Associates in the $400K – $500K total compensation range, and various other bulgebracket and middlemarket firms followed suit. These are useful in the U.S. at some smaller firms.
As with PE in many other emerging/frontier markets, it’s more like growth equity than traditional roles at middle-market PE firms and mega-funds in the U.S. poor stock-market performance, slowing growth rates, and an aging population. But even if buyouts tick up, growth deals will still dominate the market into the 2030s.
On the other hand, I do not recommend capital markets over something like a private equity mega-fund offer , even if the capital markets offer is at a bulgebracket. If it’s a 5-person regional boutique , take the BB capital markets offer. But if it’s one of the top few middle-market banks (e.g.,
We’ll return to this point later, but in finance, it’s more common to do a pre-MBA internship at a small VC/PE firm or boutique bank rather than a bulgebracket bank. below the normal “ middle-market private equity ” cut-off). For private equity, anything with under $1 billion in AUM should be fine (i.e.,
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