Over the last five years, many private equity market participants have become acquainted with a “GP-led secondary” transaction – i.e., a transaction where a private equity sponsor proposes to transfer all or a portion of the assets managed by an existing fund into a new “continuation” fund that will be managed by the same private equity sponsor. In such a transaction, the equity capital generally comes from a combination of “secondary” capital providers that are putting new money into the deal...By: Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.