Regulators' Increased Focus On GP-Led Secondaries And Continuation Funds

As IPOs and other traditional paths to liquidity for private assets have become more challenging, GP-led secondary transactions have emerged as a powerful and popular tool across closed-end private funds, leading to explosive growth over the last five years. And while macro factors influence their prevalence year over year, these transactions remain broadly popular across the various stakeholders in these transactions, facilitating different goals for different parties:

• Existing Investors (LPs): Near-term liquidity in a liquidity-constrained market, typically with an option to continue participation if desired
• New Investors (Buyers): Access to a mature portfolio with unrealized upside