Waterfall Distribution with multiple inflows and outflows

Looking for help to calculate and create an excel model for LP and GP distributions on a quarterly basis considering LPs may come at different times over the period during the first year. Hurdle rate of 8% and anything above that is split 80 to the LPs and 20 to the GP.

 

someone may correct me here, but i think you will have to just create separate waterfalls for each date of funding. If 5 investors invest on 6/1, thats one waterfall, and if 1 invests on 9/1, thats another waterfall.

 
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you definitely don't need separate waterfalls. PM me for an example/screen shot model. You just need separate "tabs" for each partner, and columns for their funding/distribution amounts with corresponding dates. All you have to do then is layer the formulas on your net contributions / distributions point at the waterfall. Don't over complicate it. When I first was presented with your problem - I built out this stupidly long and complex answer. My then boss basically threw it in the trash, recreated a simple and seamless example in about 20 minutes...

 

Interested what those in secondaries have to say. Can't you just take gross distributions less invested capital times 1.08^[year of distribution] then multiply by 20%? Or are there complexities around multiple distributions that prohibit this (i.e. a true-up at each distribution/write-down)? IRR calcs assume the interim cash distributions are reinvested at the same rate, no?

Alternatively, you could track each PortCo drawdown as a standalone IRR calculation?

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