A large European universal bank was recently trying to lure a bright twenty-something MBA graduate from a US leveraged buy-out (LBO) firm to come to work in its London investment banking business. The target proposed an unusual bargain. He would come and work for the bank if it would compensate him for giving up his share in the capital gains he expected to make from the eventual sales of companies in his current employer’s private-equity portfolio.
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