Practice 06

Alternatives

Alternative investments and private-market access — pre-IPO secondaries, curated deal access for PE funds and family offices, PE/VC fund placement and AI data-centre investments.

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Overview

Alternative investments and private-market access

Matchpoint Partners' Alternatives practice gives qualified investors access to private-market opportunities beyond conventional equity and debt — curated US pre-IPO secondaries, deal flow for private equity funds and family offices, PE/VC fund placement, and AI data-centre investments.

We focus on the highest-conviction opportunities, structured for PE funds, family offices and institutional investors, with disciplined pricing and counterparty diligence on every allocation.

  • USD 1m – 50m+ pre-IPO ticket sizes per name.
  • For: PE funds, family offices, qualified investors.
  • Access: secondaries, SPVs, fund placement, co-investment, data centres.
  • Focus: frontier AI, data centres, private markets.
Capabilities

What we deliver

Explore each capability in detail.

01

Pre-IPO Secondaries →

Curated secondary access to leading late-stage US pre-IPO companies.

02

GP-Led & Continuation-Fund Secondaries →

Liquidity and re-ups via GP-led and continuation-fund secondaries.

03

LP-Led Secondaries →

Purchase and sale of LP fund stakes in the secondary market.

04

Co-Investment & Direct Deal Access →

Direct deal and co-investment access alongside leading sponsors.

05

Fund Placement (PE / VC) →

Placement of PE and venture funds with a curated base of institutional LPs.

06

SPV Structuring →

Single- and multi-name SPVs for clean, ring-fenced private-market exposure.

07

AI Data Centres →

Equity and debt access to GCC and global AI data-centre infrastructure.

08

Digital Infrastructure →

Investment access to digital infrastructure — fibre, towers and edge.

09

Energy Transition →

Capital for renewables, storage and the energy transition.

10

AI / Technology Advisory →

Capital advisory at the intersection of AI, frontier technology and the capital markets.

11

Family Office Deal Execution & Due Diligence →

Institutional-grade screening, diligence and execution support for family offices doing direct deals.

12

Fund-Raise Readiness & LP Due Diligence →

DDQ, data-room and track-record preparation that gets emerging managers through institutional diligence.

13

Anchor & Seed Capital Advisory →

Cornerstone, anchor and GP-seeding capital for first- and second-vintage managers.

14

Pre-IPO Diligence & Verified Access →

Chain-of-title verification, structure diligence and issuer-authorised access to late-stage private names.

15

Private Equity Fund Placement →

Placement for PE funds raising USD 50m–1bn — the bracket global agents decline.

16

Venture Capital Fund Placement →

Placement for VC funds — the segment placement agents call ‘too difficult’.

17

Private Credit Fund Placement →

Placement for private credit and direct-lending funds into the fastest-growing GCC allocation.

18

Real Estate Fund Placement →

Placement for real estate funds and programmatic ventures with real-estate-native GCC capital.

19

GCC LP & Sovereign Capital Access →

The GCC leg of your raise — run by a firm that lives where the capital lives.

20

Emerging Manager Placement →

Readiness, anchor capital and placement in one programme for first- and second-vintage funds.

21

UAE Family Office Setup & Market Entry →

Establishing your family office in the UAE — structure, substance and deal flow from day one.

22

Private Credit Co-Investment Access →

Direct and co-investment access to GCC private credit — without the fund-fee drag.

23

Private Bank & EAM Allocation Solutions →

Differentiated Gulf product, feeder structuring and RM support for private banks, EAMs and MFOs.

Select transactions

Select mandates

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
Questions, answered

Alternatives FAQs

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.

Pre-IPO secondary tickets typically start around USD 1m per name and range to USD 50m+, varying by opportunity and structure. Fund placements and co-investments are sized to each investor’s mandate. All access is for qualified investors, subject to eligibility and counterparty terms.

Pricing is negotiated with the selling holder and benchmarked against the company’s most recent funding round and comparable secondary trades. Matchpoint runs pricing, structure and counterparty diligence on every allocation, so investors see how the entry price compares before committing.

Yes. The Alternatives practice provides equity and debt access to AI data-centre and digital-infrastructure opportunities across the GCC and globally — from construction through refinancing — for institutional investors and family offices seeking contracted, infrastructure-like cash flows with structural demand growth.

GCC family offices access direct real-estate deals through co-investment alongside sponsors, deal-by-deal special-purpose vehicles and proprietary origination, rather than committing blind to a pooled fund, and an adviser such as Matchpoint Partners sources and structures that access. Direct and co-investment routes give control over each asset, fee efficiency and transparency, but require underwriting, structuring and diligence capacity the family may prefer to outsource. Matchpoint originates opportunities, prepares investment-committee materials and supports underwriting for family offices and private-wealth platforms across the GCC, UK, Switzerland and Singapore, subject to mandate fit, diligence, applicable regulation and a formal engagement.

Yes, deal-by-deal co-investment is one of the most common ways a GCC family office deploys into real estate: the family takes a direct stake in a single asset alongside the sponsor, usually through an SPV with agreed economics, governance and reporting. It avoids blind-pool exposure and lets the family choose each deal on its merits. The work is in the structuring, the alignment of terms and the diligence. Matchpoint Partners assesses the sponsor, structures the co-investment and prepares the investment-committee pack, subject to mandate fit, diligence, applicable regulation and a formal engagement.

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 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.

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