Your roadmap to landing a PE associate role. Mike walks you through on-cycle and off-cycle recruiting, working with headhunters, choosing target firms, and preparing for interviews through to managing offers.
50+ exercises covering every LBO variant from a 20-year career. Master every building block, from sources and uses, taxes and NOLs to management incentive plans and minimum equity structuring. Walk into any model test or deal ready for whatever they throw at you.
Master a simple, powerful framework to break down any company, determine its core drivers, and craft credible modeling assumptions. In just a few hours, gain the business judgment it usually takes 5-10 years to acquire on the job.
Walk through a private equity deal from start to finish, the way it actually happens on the job. At every key decision point, see how both the buyer and the seller think, what each side is solving for, and what’s really being said between the lines. Show up on day one already reading deals like a seasoned pro.
