Private Equity Acquisitions Intern
Caprae Capital Partners
United StatesFresher3h agovia LinkedIn
This job at a glance
- Who can apply
- New grads and up to 1 year
- Must know
- ValuationExcel
- Work
- On-site in United States · internship
- Pay
- Not stated by the employer.
- Skill demand
- Excel41%Valuation30%of 99 similar entry-level jobs posted in the US this week
- Listed
- Nov 9, 2026 · still open
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About the Internship
Caprae’s Buyside Internship is a hands-on program for students to understand how acquisitions are negotiated and structured. Interns will learn through exposure to real deals, deal structuring, and conversations with business owners, with a primary focus on communication, understanding founders, reading motivations, and gathering deal-relevant information. Interns can begin supporting real deals and learning valuation logic, structure mechanics, and ETA transaction sequencing as early as four weeks in.
Key Responsibilities
- Learn the mechanics of earnout, seller financing, rollover equity, and reps and warranties.
- Evaluate fit, feasibility, and deal readiness.
- Understand seller motivations versus buyer constraints.
- Observe real deal conversations and how structures adjust.
- Support live buyer and seller interactions.
- Prepare meeting notes, next steps, and negotiation plans.
- Assist in structuring lower-middle-market deals.
- Participate in conversations with business owners and executives to understand founder objectives.
- Learn real-world buyer and seller negotiation tactics.
- Maintain structured and outcome-oriented conversations.
- Observe how valuation gaps and structure negotiations are resolved.
- Identify factors that lead to deal failure and success.
- Follow the pacing, sequencing, and psychological arc of a deal.
Internship Details
- Hours: 10 to 12 hours per week
- Duration: Usually 3 months
- Location: Remote, open to candidates in the United States
- Compensation: Unpaid internship with weekly performance-based bonuses (variable, not guaranteed). Deal team interns may earn up to 20% of the success fee on their deals (variable, not guaranteed).
Career Path
- Strong performance after one month can lead to work with the deal team and the research team.
- The program prefers to hire full-time from the internship pool.
- 3 interns converted to full-time roles in 2025.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- A strong communicator.
- A fast learner.
- A student who wants responsibility early.
- Prefers learning by doing.
- Enjoys structured conversation more than spreadsheet-heavy work.
- Fluent in English.