Alternatives

Co-Investment & Direct Deal Access

Direct deal and co-investment access alongside leading sponsors.

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Overview

Co-investment and direct deal access let investors deploy alongside sponsors into single assets, often fee-light, improving net returns. Matchpoint provides curated co-investment and direct-deal access for PE funds and family offices.

As part of our Alternatives practice, Matchpoint Partners has originated and led $2+ billion of transactions across four continents — and every alternatives mandate is led by a partner, from first call to close.

How Matchpoint helps

Our role on co-investment & direct deal access mandates

  • Co-invest alongside lead sponsors
  • Single-asset, direct exposure
  • Often reduced fees and carry
  • Curated, diligence-led opportunities
Track record

Select transactions

Representative alternatives mandates led by Matchpoint partners.

AI Infrastructure
OpenAI

Curated pre-IPO secondary access into a leading frontier AI model platform.

Secondary Placement · USD 200m–250m available
AI Safety
Anthropic

Pre-IPO secondary access into a frontier AI safety company.

Secondary Placement · USD 10m–300m available
Aerospace
SpaceX

Secondary access into the leading private aerospace platform.

Secondary Placement · USD 20m–100m available
Payments / Fintech
Stripe

Secondary participation in a global payments and fintech leader.

Secondary Placement · USD 10m–1bn available
AI Infrastructure
xAI

Direct secondary access into a frontier AI infrastructure company.

Secondary Placement · USD 20m–100m available
Technology
ByteDance

Secondary access into a leading global technology platform.

Secondary Placement · USD 500m available
Innovation & insight

Our proprietary research

Original, data-driven research from our team, relevant to this area.

Questions, answered

Co-Investment & Direct Deal Access — frequently asked questions

Direct, often fee-light exposure to specific assets, improving net returns.

PE funds and family offices able to evaluate single-asset risk.

Primarily through relationships — sponsors offer co-investment to existing LPs and to investors introduced by trusted intermediaries who can move at deal speed. Building a reputation for quick, reliable decisions matters as much as capital, because sponsors return to co-investors who performed last time.

Through an SPV that invests alongside the sponsor’s fund in the same security, on substantially the same terms. The sponsor controls the deal and the exit; co-investors typically receive information rights and, in larger positions, limited governance protections. Economics are usually lighter than a fund commitment.

The sponsor’s track record in that exact strategy, why the deal needs co-capital, alignment between sponsor economics and yours, and concentration risk — one asset, no portfolio cushion. The decision window is usually short, so investors need their diligence framework ready before the opportunity arrives.

It covers US pre-IPO secondaries, curated deal access for private equity funds and family offices, PE/VC fund placement, and AI data-centre investments — for qualified investors.

Pre-IPO secondaries, GP- and LP-led secondaries, co-investments, PE/VC fund placement and SPVs, plus thematic exposure to AI data centres, digital infrastructure and the energy transition.

Access is for qualified investors — primarily PE funds, family offices and institutions — subject to eligibility, suitability and counterparty terms.

Matchpoint works primarily on a success fee, with a modest retainer to cover execution. Fees are agreed in writing up front and scaled to the size and complexity of the transaction — with no hidden costs.

Most mandates reach a first term sheet within 30–90 days, depending on diligence readiness and structure; closing follows once terms are agreed.

A short, confidential scoping call and NDA; we structure the requirement and prepare materials, then run a competitive process across our 5,000+ investor and lender relationships, and negotiate to close — with a partner leading at every step.

Matchpoint Partners is based in the UAE and runs cross-border mandates across the UAE, KSA, India and the UK, with active deal activity in wider Europe, Singapore and the United States.

Matchpoint has originated and led $2+ billion of transactions, with equity tickets typically USD 5m–300m, debt USD 10m–500m+, real estate finance USD 20m–500m+, and fund placements for funds of USD 50m–1bn+.

Use the enquiry form, email ck.adya@matchpoint-partners.com, or call/WhatsApp +971 52 345 1119. Every mandate is led by a partner from the very first conversation.

Yes. Matchpoint runs discreet, confidential processes and discloses client identities only under a signed non-disclosure agreement (NDA).

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