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To: Jeffrey
From: Harry
Date: June 11, 2009
The following is a summary regarding "JP Morgan Secondary Private Equity Investors" (Fund):
liming:
In order to invest in the Fund, we must provide subscription documents on or before
June 30, 2009.
Strategy :
The strategy of the Fund is to acquire "seasoned" limited partnership interests in existing
private equity funds. These private equity funds will be purchased in the secondary market
from stressed or distressed sellers such as university endowment and other institutional
investors. The portfolio of the private equity funds will consist of private equity and venture
capital of small to midsized companies. The funds expect to be able to purchase these assets at
deep discount prices. Approximately 1/3 of the fund's investments will be seasoned venture
capital funds and 2/3's will be in leverage buyout funds.
Many of the underlying fund's that the Fund expects to acquire have capital commitments that
were raised in 2000-2005 and have relatively mature portfolios of underlying company
investments that have been in the portfolio for several years.
Operation:
The Fund will be managed by Larry Unrein, who is currently the head of the Private Equity Fund
of Funds group at JPM. This group has approximately 40 investment professionals. The Fund
will have a 3 year investment period to purchase limited partnership interests in the equity
funds. The Fund anticipates that the commitment of capital will be completed within 18 months
of the initial closing. The investor will be required to make contributions (up to the
commitment amount) as the "Fund" invests in new private equity funds or as the existing
equity funds desire to purchase new assets. The fund must liquidate operation within 10 years
(i.e., by June 2019), with up to two one-year extensions.
An investor cannot redeem its interest in the Fund. The investor will receive distributions only
upon the sale of assets by the private equity funds.
Investors will pay a 1% management fee on committed capital for years 1-3 (and then fees will
be reduced by 10% each year afterwards) and a 10% performance fee on profits as they are
distributed to investors. The performance fee is subject to a claw back at the end of the Fund's
life, if for any reason the manager has received more than 10% of realized net profits.
JP Morgan:
JPM will commit $100,000,000 of its own capital into the Fund. JPM currently owns some of the
existing private equity funds in various pre-existing fund-of-funds vehicles and in some cases
JPM sits on the Advisory Boards. This gives 1PM the ability to evaluate the current asset
portfolio of some of the underlying funds.
Outlook:
Based on conservative assumptions, JPM typically is looking for a 25% "IRR" assuming the
markets stay in its current trading ranges. This assumption is based on the low purchase price of
the underlying assets, on what JPM believes are conservative assumptions about future
performance of the underlying companies, and the ability to sell assets in the future, either via
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an IPO or to strategic buyers. (If stock indexes (DOW, NASDAQ S&P) rise to its previous levels,
the fund will potentially have much higher returns).
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