PRIMARIES, SECONDARIES & CO-INVESTMENTS

Our Lead Consultant, James Ellis, heads a team dedicated to the needs of primary funds, secondary funds and co-investors. Our retained search and recruitment experts support LPs of all types in building their investment platforms across the world. Delivering the best people requires a thorough understanding of the strategies in order to promote and differentiate the roles and the firms effectively.

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James joined PER in 2017. He focuses on searches for investment professionals across the LP space.

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James Ellis

Lead Consultant, Head of Primaries, Secondaries & Co-Investments

+44 20 7747 7885

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Will focuses on investment roles across the European LP space, focussing on junior roles in secondaries, fund of funds and co-investment strategies.

Will Rowntree

Consultant

As a member of the LP team, Sophie specialises in placing junior to senior level candidates into primaries, secondaries, and co-investment roles across a range of geographies.

Sophie Hornor

Research Consultant

Louisa supports her very busy team, she assists with all administrative tasks as well as scheduling interviews and working with candidates and clients.

Louisa Bailey

Assistant Team Coordinator

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9

Secondaries placements in the last 12 months

12

Fund-investing & Co-invest placements

5

Countries where we completed LPs & Secondaries searches

27

Current open roles with LPs & Secondaries

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Building your leadership pipeline

Whether adding to an existing team or bringing in a senior hire to develop a new strategy, hiring for primary, secondary and co-investors requires deep product understanding of the nuances and objectives of the role.

Culture and compensation vary across the wide range of organisations that deliver these strategies such as sovereign wealth funds, family offices, multi-asset managers, pension funds and foundations.

Our knowledgeable team ensures clients and candidates can make the right choice for their needs.

Mid level hiring requires knowledge of the landscape and where change may result in a new source of people as well as a great cultural understanding of the client to promote the organisation as well as the role.

Our team maintains market maps of the UK and European primary, secondary and co-invest landscape to help pinpoint likely people for mid-level roles.

We are successful at bringing talented junior people into the primary, secondary and co-invest space as a result of our deep understanding of the roles and opportunities and ability to distinguish those people who are likely to be committed to building a career in the space.

We hold workshops, produce articles and maintain resources which inform and educate the market on the opportunities in this space.

EXPERIENCE

Client Story

This had a unique set of requirements and required us to look deep into our networks. It also required a thorough understanding of the asset class in question and the ability to appropriately present the strategy to potential candidates.

PRIMARIES, SECONDARIES & CO-INVESTMENTS

Our experts

Will Rowntree

Sophie Hornor

Louisa Bailey

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9

Secondaries placements in the last 12 months

12

Fund-investing & Co-invest placements

5

Countries where we completed LPs & Secondaries searches

27

Current open roles with LPs & Secondaries

Building your leadership pipeline

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PRIMARIES, SECONDARIES & CO-INVESTMENTS

Our experts

Will Rowntree

Sophie Hornor

Louisa Bailey

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9

Secondaries placements in the last 12 months

12

Fund-investing & Co-invest placements

5

Countries where we completed LPs & Secondaries searches

27

Current open roles with LPs & Secondaries

Building your leadership pipeline

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