About Our Client
Our client is a rapidly growing private equity fund investing in the secondaries markets across Europe. Founded by two seasoned investors with over a decade of experience in secondaries, they established with the idea to offer institutional investors access to lower mid-market opportunities across Europe, which tends to be neglected by the larger secondaries investors. Their approach focuses on GP-led deals, which allows them to invest in continuation funds (single or multi-asset) of European mid-market GPs. These deals are proprietary sourced and require networking across the whole GP ecosystem and the ability to identify discounted opportunities. Having successfully closed their second fund and built a team of a dozen professionals, they are looking for an Associate to join their deal team to support capital deployment. This is an exceptional opportunity to work directly with, and learn from, experienced investment professionals in an entrepreneurial fast-paced environment.
What the job involves
- Supporting all aspects of the investment process: from sourcing, due diligence, to the execution of private equity secondaries transactions: LP and GP-led, single-asset and co-investments
- Preparing detailed quantitative / qualitative analyses as well as Investment Memorandums to be discussed over regular Investment Committees
- Extensive fund and portfolio company valuation analysis to monitor existing investments
- Regular travel throughout Europe to network with Investors and Advisors with a view to source / originate opportunities
Who we are looking for
- Relevant experience, ideally at a private equity secondaries firm, a private equity fund-of-funds, an investment bank (preferably in M&A), or in direct private equity investing
- Strong analytical abilities and financial modelling skills, paired with a desire to learn and develop
- Strong communication skills, a demonstrated ability to write effectively, in English and ideally another European language
