Recruiting for private equity is notoriously competitive. This field attracts leading talent, and top firms will snag the top 1% of that talent. If you’re a smaller firm or new to private equity recruiting, you must understand the recruiting process used across the board.

The whole is often greater than the sum of the parts. That’s the prevailing idea behind mergers and acquisitions (M&A) – two constituent companies can come together to form something far greater than the individual entities. It’s a one plus one equals three type equation. It is an idea that corporations all the world over have come to embrace as a means of inorganic growth. Over the last three decades, the global value of mergers and acquisitions has risen in lock step with the economy’s ever-expanding performance. In 2019 and 2020, the M&A industry hit $3.4 trillion and $2.8 trillion in volume, respectively. Behind every large M&A is a well-defined process run by experienced M&A professionals and a number of supporting staff.

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