Financing Orchestration Replaces Exit Timing
As exits stay slow, PE and growth investors are turning financing into a hold-period strategy, using structured capital and continuation vehicles to fund companies and manage liquidity.
What is this trend?
Private equity and growth investors are using structured capital, continuation funds, and evergreen vehicles to keep companies funded and extend hold periods when exits are delayed.
- Structured equity is replacing exit dependence as IPO and M&A windows stay shut.
- Continuation funds are becoming a standard liquidity and hold-extension tool.
- LP scrutiny is shifting from paper marks to DPI, governance, and fair process.
- Preferreds, convertibles, and debt-plus-warrants are now core hold-period tools.
- Teams that can engineer capital structures will outperform in slow-exit markets.
What’s the latest?
Private equity and growth investors spent the week institutionalizing capital solutions for delayed exits: Linden Capital Partners closed a $400 million Structured Capital Fund II, HarbourVest launche
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