Fund placement is the raising of limited-partner capital for an investment vehicle. Zenith prepares the track-record attribution and the DDQ, maps investors by mandate, runs a sequenced outreach process and manages operational due diligence through to first and final close.
Teams institutionalising an attributable track record built at a prior firm or deal by deal.
Managers raising a successor vehicle or widening the LP base beyond the existing register.
Managers adding capital to a live vehicle — an underused route that skips most of the cost of a new raise.
Deal-by-deal syndication to a known investor base, often the honest first step toward a blind pool.
| Parameter | Range |
|---|---|
| Vehicle size | Vehicle-dependent — typically USD 25m – 500m |
| Tenor | Fund life, not applicable as a debt tenor |
| Structures | Successor vehicle, top-up, co-invest, SMA, deal-by-deal |
| Investor types | Family offices, endowments, funds of funds, institutions, DFIs |
| Indicative timeline | 6 – 18 months to final close |
Commercial model
A monthly work fee through readiness and process, plus a placement fee on capital closed, subject to local licensing and agreed in writing before any investor is approached.
Phase
Phase
Phase
First-time and successor vehicles. Two failure modes dominate: relationships without materials, and materials without relationships. The readiness work fixes the first before outreach begins.
Vehicle raises for managers deploying into contracted energy and infrastructure assets, where LPs test the pipeline and the attribution before they test the strategy.
Single-asset vehicles, co-invest sleeves and top-ups into existing structures — usually a faster route to capital than a successor fund for a sub-scale manager.
LP placement for managers without an in-house IR function
LP placement support for fund managers raising a successor vehicle and placing additional capital into existing structures
Where there is attributable track record, yes. Without attribution the honest first step is a deal-by-deal vehicle or an SMA that builds one — a blind pool raised on an unverifiable record does not clear operational diligence.
Starting outreach before the DDQ, the model and the attribution can survive a first diligence pass. The register is small and the first pass is remembered; a re-approach twelve months later starts behind where the first one did.
Attribution at deal level, team stability and economics, the operational infrastructure behind the NAV, and what happens to the strategy when the market that produced the track record stops cooperating.
Large enough to make the first close credible, small enough that the vehicle is not defined by one relationship. Anchor economics are worth conceding; anchor control usually is not.
No. We build the target list, sequence the outreach and use relationships where they exist, but the process is designed to work without depending on any single one.
Strictly according to local licensing. Where a mandate requires a licensed placement agent in a given jurisdiction, that is arranged and disclosed rather than worked around.
Tell us the transaction and the timetable. If it is not something we should run, we will say so.
