Hi, this may be a silly question based on my lack of experience in the space, but I'm confused about an aspect of co-investing. Say two firms co-invest and hope to realize synergies with other port cos - how does this work if one of the co-investors doesn't have ownership in the other already owned port co? Can they not do so?
Thanks in advance for any explanations / pointers.
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I would say most GP to GP co-investment deals involve one majority investor and a few minority ones.They can seek out other GP firms to help with the financing but they will each have a very small percentage of ownerhsip - very rarely any board seats or important say in the target company. The majority GP investor doesn't really expect synergies from the co-investors unless they have a large percentage like 15-30%, which is unusual. Think of it as like an alternative to debt financing - an additional equity check. The majority investor needs 100m$ equity on top of their own to secure their 1bn$ deal and will seek out this money from a few different GP's to coinvest. Much more common for the majority GP to delegate 5-15% of the target co to 5-10 other smaller GP firms. They can prioritize the smaller firms that can provide some type of expert advice or experience, but my experience is that these co-investors are mostly passive. I don't really have experience between 2 GP's coinvesting on almost equal terms though, but for sure this is much rarer.
Thank you so much for the helpful reply. So basically, in most cases, the major GP may anticipate synergies with another of its port cos, but the smaller co-investors (that the major GP takes on for the purpose of financing) don’t have this expectation to take advantage of any such synergies?
I would say so yes. Synergies can come through the means of expert network or just general advice between the co investors. But really the main GP is just looking to gain equity/reduce leverage (especially these past few months/ end of last year where the cost of debt has been really high. Co-investments have risen as a good alternative to finance deals)
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