Cogent Partners is a boutique, private equity-focused investment bank and advisory firm and was one of the first advisory firms dedicated to transactions in the private equity secondary market (secondaries). The firm, which was founded in 2002, provides an array of sell-side advisory services such as secondary advisory, portfolio valuation and other research functions. Since inception, Cogent Partners has advised on over 4,500 limited partnership interests representing over $65 billion in private equity secondaries.
Cogent Partners offers various private equity research products, including both fund and portfolio-level performance monitoring as well as due diligence services for new fund commitments. The firm publishes research bulletins for distribution to institutional investors. Cogent also runs an alternative asset management business "CP Cogent Asset Management" which focuses in particular on investing into the timber asset class. Cogent raised and manages the Cambium Global Timberland Limited Fund, listed on the London Stock Exchange, which is run by Colin McGrady.
The firm has offices in Dallas, New York City, London, Shanghai and Tokyo and comprises a team of over 40 professionals.
The firm was founded by former investment professionals from the Crossroads Group. Among its founders were Colin McGrady, Scott Myers, Stephen Sloan, Ian Charles, and Brian Mooney. Crossroads was a private equity investment manager investing primarily as a fund of funds. Within the secondary space, Crossroads was noted for its $340 million acquisition of a portfolio of direct investments in large- to mid-cap companies from Electronic Data Systems (EDS). Since then, the firm has added a variety of professionals from various investment banking and management consulting backgrounds.
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