Cash Flow Priority in Waterfall

I know everybody says that Waterfalls significantly very depending on structure and partner but is it typical to have promote paid before return of capital?

I generally always thought that LPs should expect return of capital, then a pref, Then back to splits before hitting a hurdle and promoting the GP.

How have you seen it work before?

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Haven’t seen this structure…would think that instead of this promote, it would be in the form of an upfront fee to GP

 

Yeah, I mean for a development deal. I can see a negotiation on a land contribution by GP at x% accrual rate paid out at reversion. However, still a fixed % rather than a promote with some form of clawback/payment restrictions if the deal goes south

 

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