Why Sell: For General Partners
General Partners may decide to participate in a secondary transaction for a number of reasons, including but not limited to:
- Securing follow-on capital for portfolios
- Helping limited partners who need to make strategic changes to their portfolios
- Obtaining relief from limited partners who are no longer supportive
- Obtaining liquidity for end of life funds
- Engaging in stapled secondaries – secondary transactions with primary commitment – in order to facilitate fundraising
- Providing captive general partners with a platform to raise and manage third party capital
- Accessing Paul Capital's broader limited partner base through the secondary program
- Accessing additional capital for co-investments