October 2018 – A Co-Investment Overview
Investing alongside top-tier private equity sponsors can deliver substantial benefits to limited and general partners alike.
As private equity has grown as an asset class, the dynamics between fund managers, investors and the companies in which they invest have also evolved. Among the more prominent developments in recent years has been the explosive growth of co-investment activity, which essentially entails an investor taking a direct position in a company alongside a fund sponsor acting as a general partner for the investment…