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Associate, Private Equity Secondaries

New York, New York, United States · On-site

Mid level

Description Role Overview: We anticipate hiring two professionals for this team and are open to candidates with varying levels of experience. These hires will join HighVista's newly formed Private Equity Secondaries team…

Skills: Financial Modeling, LBO Analysis, DCF Frameworks, Due Diligence, GP-led Transactions

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Associate, Private Equity Secondaries

HighVista Strategies

New York, New York, United States • On-site

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  • Full-time
  • Posted 11d ago
  • ~40 hrs/week

Responsibilities

The role involves identifying, evaluating, and executing GP-led secondary transactions and continuation vehicle structures in the lower middle market. Key duties include conducting rigorous due diligence, building detailed financial models, and preparing investment committee presentations.

Requirements

Candidates need 3–6 years of investment experience in private equity, investment banking, or secondaries. Proficiency in LBO modeling and a strong ability to evaluate business quality in small-cap contexts are essential.

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Description

    

Role Overview:

We anticipate hiring two professionals for this team and are open to candidates with varying levels of experience. These hires will join HighVista's newly formed Private Equity Secondaries team, working directly with senior investment professionals to identify, evaluate, and execute GP-led transactions in the lower middle market. The role demands a rigorous, entrepreneurial professional who can underwrite complex continuation vehicle structures, build conviction on single-asset deals, and contribute meaningfully to a fast-growing strategy from its early stages.

This is a high-impact role for the level, with broad exposure to deal origination, relationship management, financial modeling, and investment committee processes. The successful candidate will bring prior experience in private equity, investment banking, or secondaries, and will possess a genuine intellectual curiosity for lower middle market businesses and the GP-led ecosystem.

  

Key Responsibilities:

  • Conduct rigorous due diligence on GP-led secondary transactions, including single-asset continuation vehicles 
  • Build and maintain detailed financial models to evaluate GP-led opportunities, including bottoms up LBO analyses
  • Assess underlying portfolio companies across the GP-led pipeline — performing quality of earnings analyses, market sizing, competitive positioning, management track record evaluations, and operational KPI benchmarking
  • Develop and maintain proprietary GP relationship coverage maps, tracking deal history, fund cycles, vintage exposure, and continuation fund candidacy across HighVista's lower middle market sponsor universe
  • Prepare investment memoranda, IC presentations, and transaction summaries with clarity and precision, synthesizing quantitative and qualitative findings for senior review
  • Assist in managing legal documentation review, including LPA summaries, secondary purchase agreements, representation and warranty terms
  • Collaborate with the broader HighVista private equity team to leverage primary fund knowledge, co-investment history, and GP relationships when assessing continuation fund transactions

Requirements

  • 3–6 years of relevant investment experience, including private equity, investment banking (M&A / financial sponsors), or a dedicated secondaries investment platform
  • Strong preference for candidates with prior exposure to high volume GP-led secondaries transactions, continuation vehicle structuring, or lower middle market buyout investing
  • Exceptional financial modeling skills with fluency in LBO models and DCF frameworks; familiarity with NAV analysis and secondary pricing methodologies is a strong plus
  • Demonstrated ability to evaluate business quality — sound judgment on competitive dynamics, organic growth potential, management alignment, and downside risk in small-cap and lower middle market contexts
  • High degree of intellectual rigor and attention to detail; capable of producing IC-ready work product with minimal supervision
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to present complex investment theses clearly and persuasively
  • Collaborative and team-oriented work style; comfortable operating in a flat, entrepreneurial environment with meaningful individual ownership

Related keywords

Private EquitySecondariesGP-ledContinuation VehiclesLower Middle MarketLBODCFNAV AnalysisInvestment CommitteeDue DiligenceM&AFinancial SponsorsBuyout InvestingLPA SummariesSecondary Purchase AgreementsKPI Benchmarking

About HighVista Strategies

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Trusted Partner for Investors looking Beyond the Standard Playbook

Industry
Investment Management
Company size
51-200 employees
Founded
2004
Headquarters
Boston, MA
LinkedIn followers
4,836

HighVista Strategies LLC is an employee-owned alternative asset manager that brings investors alpha opportunities in structurally inefficient markets. Based in Boston and founded in 2004, HighVista manages over $11.5 billion of capital on behalf of sophisticated investors globally. HighVista is a partner for investors looking beyond the standard playbook for differentiated ideas that can amplify returns. HighVista’s investment strategies span private markets, including private credit, lower middle market private equity and early-stage venture capital; public markets, including biotechnology equities and hedged public markets strategies; as well as multi-strategy alternatives.

Offices: 200 Clarendon Street, 50th Floor, Boston, MA 02116, US

private equityventure capitalprivate creditand biotechnologyFinancial Services
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About HighVista Strategies

LinkedInVisit site

Trusted Partner for Investors looking Beyond the Standard Playbook

Industry
Investment Management
Company size
51-200 employees
Founded
2004
Headquarters
Boston, MA
LinkedIn followers
4,836

HighVista Strategies LLC is an employee-owned alternative asset manager that brings investors alpha opportunities in structurally inefficient markets. Based in Boston and founded in 2004, HighVista manages over $11.5 billion of capital on behalf of sophisticated investors globally. HighVista is a partner for investors looking beyond the standard playbook for differentiated ideas that can amplify returns. HighVista’s investment strategies span private markets, including private credit, lower middle market private equity and early-stage venture capital; public markets, including biotechnology equities and hedged public markets strategies; as well as multi-strategy alternatives.

Offices: 200 Clarendon Street, 50th Floor, Boston, MA 02116, US

private equityventure capitalprivate creditand biotechnologyFinancial Services
View all jobs at HighVista Strategies

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