Small GP-led secondary deals (LMM)

Our fund is about 400mm in size and we typically do 3-4% per company in single asset GP-led deals. Finding it tough to get access to many intermediaries to take us seriously. Most groups, even in the LMM, are willing to write bigger cheques and the syndicate ends up being quite thin.

Curious if anyone has any feedback on which intermediaries are easier to work with when it comes to smaller tickets? Sadly, for the small end of the GP-led market there seems to be a real gap in quality.

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Would you be open to jumping on the phone to talk about this space? I'm particularly interested in how a fund like yours can target GP-leds with independent sponsors and search funds. 

 

Probably if you're some schlub firm like Commonfund that targets lower end GPs to do a restructuring of their failing manufacturing business for 4x EBITDA.

 
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