HF primary / secondary equity issuance strategy

Is anyone aware of funds, or a team within a large fund, focused on primary and secondary equity issuance? Wanted to get a view on why HF would find this strategy attractive, and why is a HF doing this vs. a typical primary investor?

My thoughts would be that there is alpha from valuing a business correctly vs the ipo process (both long/short opps available), but to me it seems a more traditional investment role than what HFs would typically look at.

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Some arbitrage funds play IPOs and follow-ons for short-term trades because of technical dynamics (supply/demand imbalances created by a hot IPO or a flood of new shares etc). Is this the sort of strategy you mean?

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