Leveraging deep and extensive relationships across the alternative asset management ecosystem, Blue Owl seeks to deliver sustainable cash flow returns and diversified exposure to private markets growth.
A transaction where an investor acquires a minority interest in an alternative asset manager (the General Partner, or GP). Minority investments are typically structured as an equity investment, a preferred or otherwise structured equity investment, or a revenue share.
Our counterparties are primarily institutional private capital managers in all areas, including:
They may have several potential financial motivating factors, including:
GP commitment
New products
Platform expansion
Succession planning
Cap structure reorganization
A GP stake investment may be “primary,” where the investor buys new interests in the firm, existing owners are diluted and the invested cash goes onto the firm’s balance sheet, or “secondary,” where existing equity holders sell their interests to the investor. Although terms vary, transactions typically involve the purchase price being paid over multiple years. A minority owner’s interest is usually permanent and entitles the holder to a share of the GP’s cashflow, which is generated by the fees and carried interest charged on the GP’s funds as well as returns made from investments on the GP’s balance sheet (i.e., the GP’s co-investments in its own funds).
A GP stakes investment typically invests in a holding company shoulder-to-shoulder with a firm’s senior partners, potentially providing returns from at least three sources:
They may have several potential financial motivating factors, including:
GP commitment
New products
Platform expansion
Succession planning
Cap structure reorganization
A GP stake investment may be “primary,” where the investor buys new interests in the firm, existing owners are diluted and the invested cash goes onto the firm’s balance sheet, or “secondary,” where existing equity holders sell their interests to the investor. Although terms vary, transactions typically involve the purchase price being paid over multiple years. A minority owner’s interest is usually permanent and entitles the holder to a share of the GP’s cashflow, which is generated by the fees and carried interest charged on the GP’s funds as well as returns made from investments on the GP’s balance sheet (i.e., the GP’s co-investments in its own funds).
A GP stakes investment typically invests in a holding company shoulder-to-shoulder with a firm’s senior partners, potentially providing returns from at least three sources:
For GPs looking to diversify their offerings, fortify their balance sheets and capture the growing demand for exposure to the private markets, we believe the potential opportunity set will likely continue to grow.
Key drivers of growth in private markets include7:
Private markets strategies have generally demonstrated superior performance vs. public markets
A broad-based under-allocation to private markets from both institutional and retail investors
Companies staying private for longer
Lower barriers for retail participation in the private markets
Investors typically benefit from three cashflow streams, including contractually locked-in management fees.
Owning at the GP level can provide meaningful potential vintage year, geographic, sector, asset class and enterprise value diversification.
Paid cross-cycle, potentially generating material cash flow during an economic downturn when other assets are not generating yield, are being written down, or both.
GP Stakes offers exposure to private markets as an asset class, which is growing tremendously and forecasted to reach $21.3 trillion AUM by 2028.8
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