Atlantic-Pacific Capital Announces Formation of LP Advisory Group for Limited Partners Worldwide

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GREENWICH, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Atlantic-Pacific Capital, the largest independent global placement agency and advisory firm for alternative investments, announced today the formation of its LP Advisory Group for limited partners worldwide. The LP Advisory Group provides limited partners with the analysis, tools and expertise to actively manage their private equity portfolios to achieve their strategic objectives. The new range of services includes:

Management and execution of a customized secondary sale process tailored to specific client goals while maximizing proceeds through formal processes
Current portfolio valuation and future cash flow projections from funds, co-investments and secondary investments
In-depth portfolio review including top-down and bottom-up analysis of fund managers and portfolio companies
Analysis of historical and projected deployment of capital at the investment and portfolio level
Recommendations for active portfolio management strategy to achieve target portfolio

The dedicated four member LP Advisory team previously worked together at Smithbridge Partners and has over 40 years of combined private equity portfolio management, investment and monitoring experience. This seasoned team will focus exclusively on the LP Advisory initiative with ongoing support from 30 additional professionals based in Atlantic-Pacific’s offices across Asia, Europe and North America. “We have spent a lot of time thinking through portfolio issues that LPs face on a regular basis. As a former LP, I believe that institutional investors will benefit from our analysis and insight in order to make informed decisions about the tactical and long-term positioning of their portfolios,” explained Michael Pilson, Partner of Atlantic-Pacific’s LP Advisory Group.

The LP Advisory Group offers unique advisory insight having served as senior professionals at leading private equity investment firms and investment banks. Michael Pilson was most recently a Director and Senior Portfolio Manager in the Private Markets Group at DuPont Capital Management (“DuPont PMG”) where he was responsible for establishing DuPont PMG’s long-term and tactical investment strategy. He served on its Fiduciary and Investment Committees, which reviewed and approved in excess of $3.5 billion of investments in private equity and real estate funds, secondaries and co-investments. Kevin Imhoff, CFA most recently worked at Goldman Sachs in the Consumer Retail Group of the Investment Banking Division, and previously worked alongside Mr. Pilson at DuPont PMG. Alexander Mejia previously worked at Credit Suisse in the Private Equity Division’s Customized Fund Investment Group where he was responsible for the sourcing, analysis and execution of buyout and secondary transactions. He also helped manage several of the group’s separate accounts, which entailed advising large public and corporate pension plans, endowments, foundations and family offices on private equity strategy and portfolio construction. John Pilson most recently worked at Barclays Capital in the Leveraged Finance/Financial Sponsors Group where he advised corporate clients and private equity investors on leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, acquisitions and financings.

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Atlantic-Pacific Capital is the largest independent global placement agent and advisory firm dedicated to raising capital for alternative investments. Founded in 1995, Atlantic-Pacific Capital has raised over $40 billion for an extraordinary group of alternative asset managers seeking private capital. Typical projects include private equity, real estate and infrastructure fund placements, as well as private placement financings in support of acquisitions, buyouts and growth capital transactions. With dedicated relationship managers and advisors on the ground in New York, Greenwich, Chicago, San Francisco, London and Hong Kong, Atlantic-Pacific Capital maintains thousands of trusted relationships with influential institutional and high net worth investors worldwide.