I landed a first-round interview at a MM PE fund! It’s 30 minutes with behavioral and high-level technical questions. What knowledge should I brush up on? Any advice?

I have a finance degree but all of my experience is in MC so I’m definitely a bit rusty on finance concepts.

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Congratulations. I had my interviews last week.

First round for me was not overly technical. Behavioural questions were mostly around deal experience / how I approached certain situations (e.g disagreement in the team, convincing an audience)

Then the technical questions were around how I would determine the attractiveness of a potential acquisition and some interviewer questions like what some potential challenges that I see.

The next round is more technical. It included a highly technical case study where I needed to build a LBO model from scratch and write a CIM (including risks, hedging strategies, sensitivity analysis, and reworking the capital structure (in case the investment was not attractive based on the initial assumptions).

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Still waiting on the results of my last interview.

I wouldn’t discount any technical prep but prepare for a worst case scenario.

The deal process is basically describing a CDD process at a high level.

Attractiveness of the:
- Market (e.g Size, Growth, Competition, Regulations, Trends, Segments)
- Target Company (Financials, Product, Management, UVP, Business Model, Potential),
- Strategic Aspects (Risks, Synergies, Opportunities)

Edit: Misread your question but basically describing a deal, the approach, findings and recommendations. You will get promoted to describe why you came to a certain conclusion or your decision making process

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Congratulations. Is it a screening interview? Or actual one? Who is doing it? HR?

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Investment side

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