Private capital advisory

You help private equity and other fund managers raise money from investors, as an associate on a London fundraising advisory team. The team is called the Private Funds Group. Its clients are general partners, the firms that run private funds investing in buyouts, growth equity, private credit, infrastructure and real assets. When such a firm wants to raise its next fund, the team advises it on how to position itself, prepares its marketing materials, introduces it to investors and runs the process through to the closings, when investors sign their commitments.

The investors on the other side are limited partners, the pension funds, insurers and other institutions that commit money to a fund for years. The team acts as a placement agent, which is an adviser paid by the fund manager to find and win over those investors. The bank does not invest its own money in the funds.

This is an experienced associate seat. You run the day to day of live fundraises, manage the client relationship and check the analysts' work.