Private Capital Advisory

Mizuho, through its acquisitions of Capstone Partners and Greenhill & Co., added breadth to its alternative investment market offerings.

Our accomplished team of global professionals provides private capital advisory (PCA), fundraising and secondary liquidity solutions to private equity, credit, real asset and infrastructure firms through their unparalleled access to a broad network of funds and investors.

Primary FundraisingSecondary Liquidity Solutions

Primary Fundraising

Fundraising to the next level

Through our affiliate Capstone Partners, our primary capital advisory business works on behalf of GPs, to raise funds through its vast network of LPs by positioning the fund strategy and providing transparency. Our PCA professionals are able to diversify sources of funding for GPs around the world.

  • Leading global agent with stable team
  • Highly selective client focus
  • Dynamic, process-driven approach
  • Proven fundraising success

Notable Transactions

  • Placement Agent for Atlas Capital Resources V, a $6.45 billion fund focused on control investments in distressed opportunities
  • Placement Agent for Northlane Capital III, a $750 million fund focused on middle market buyouts in healthcare & business services
  • Placement Agent for Post Oak Energy Partners V, a $600 million fund focused on the lower middle market segment of the North American upstream oil and gas industry
  • Placement Agent for Align Collaborate Fund I, a $233 million fund focused on lower mid-market independent sponsor-backed opportunities

Secondary Liquidity Solutions

Providing creative capital solutions to GPs and LPs

Our secondary capital advisory experts work together with GPs and LPs to provide liquidity sources to those looking to monetize illiquid assets. Our professionals have worked with many of the world’s largest, most sophisticated institutional investors on leveraging the secondary market through structures such as sponsor-led transactions, fund liquidity solutions, secondary directs, management company monetization, fund valuation and sales.

Notable Transactions

  • Advisor to a West Coast VC Manager on the direct sale of a $150 million portfolio of assets and wind-down of legacy fund
  • Advisor to a Mexican Fund of Funds on a $200 million portfolio sale of VC and Energy LP interests
  • Advisor to a Family Office on the sale of its remaining legacy LP interests in VC
  • Advisor to a Swiss asset manager on the sale of a $180 million portfolio of buyout LP interests
  • Advisor to French insurer Assurances du Crédit Mutuel on the sale of a portfolio of buyout, infrastructure, growth / venture and fund-of-fund LP interests
  • Advisor to a European insurer on the sale of a €550 million portfolio of buyout, infrastructure, private credit and fund-of-fund LP interests
  • Advisor to a European insurer on the sale of a €2.7 billion portfolio of buyout LP interests
  • Advisor to French asset manager Swen Capital Partners on a €230 million GP-led tender transaction for OFI Infra Multi Select, SWEN Infra Multi Select 2 and SWEN Infra Multi Select 4
  • Advisor to a leading Japanese financing institution on the $3.4 billion sale of a portfolio of buyout and infrastructure fund and co-investment LP interests
  • Advisor to an Asian insurer on the $1.5 billion sale of a portfolio of global buyout and growth funds
  • Advisor to Shin Kong Life Insurance with respect to the divestment of buyout, growth, infrastructure and credit LP fund interests
  • Advisor to Crescent Capital Partners, an Australian private equity firm, on the establishment of a single-asset continuation vehicle for Healthcare Australia, a leading workforce solutions and direct care healthcare services provider

Secondary Market Publications

Mizuho | Greenhill’s Private Capital Advisory team publishes a semi-annual review of the secondary market. We rely on insights from our global team who work closely with some of the largest and most influential limited partners, general partners and other market participants on a regular basis. The results of our discussions, surveys and research are contained within this report, along with Greenhill transaction information and known market data.

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Mizuho's 2023 acquisition of Greenhill brings a world-class organization with reputation and decades of expertise in M&A, restructuring and private capital advisory. Serving large companies and investors across industries, our highly specialized team of professionals have extensive experience in buy side, sell side, special committee, defense and activism.
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Mizuho acquired Capstone Partners in 2022 to add fundraising capabilities to its alternative investment practice. Capstone’s accomplished team of global professionals provide private capital advisory and fundraising to private equity, credit, real asset and infrastructure firms through their unparalleled access to a broad network of funds and investors.
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