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Provides brokerage services

A Wall Street invesment bank.

Functions as a College/University

Goldman Sachs Capital Partners focuses on investments globally. It seeks long-term capital appreciation by committing equity to high-quality companies with superior management in a variety of situations, including LBOs, recapitalizations, stressed/distressed investments and growth investments to fund acquisition or expansion with an investment size ranging from $50 to $800 million and above. The firm invests across a range of industries in different forms of private equity instruments. Individual transactions vary considerably by industry, overall capital structure, geography, currency, stage of development, size and exit strategy.

AlpInvest Partners is an active manager which follows a systematic and creative approach to create attractive investment opportunities. All investment decisions are made by the investment committee, which is composed of partners from around the globe and which meets weekly. Their geographic focus is on Europe, North and Latin America, Asia and Australia. The firm's fund investments team takes a long-term investment perspective to analyze the global economic trends affecting private equity. They have general partnership relationships worldwide and are a proactive partner across the full spectrum of the private equity market, including large buyouts, middle-market, lower middle-market, and growth buyouts, venture capital, mezzanine, distressed securities, secondary and sustainable energy. AlpInvest's allocation process involves top-down segment analysis and bottom-up general manager selection. They conduct due diligence and typically allocate $10 million to $500 million per fund investment to managers that the team believes demonstrate an experienced and structured team with a meaningful, relevant track record. AlpInvest's dedicated Secondary Investment team acquires and restructures portfolios of private equity assets ranging in size from EUR 1 million to over EUR 1 billion. Their Co-Investments team invests in private equity businesses directly, providing both equity and mezzanine financing to general partners� portfolio companies.