Mizuho Americas
Banking Division
Private Capital Advisory

Private Capital Advisory

Mizuho, through its acquisitions of Capstone Partners and Greenhill & Co., added breadth to its alternative investment market offerings.

Our accomplished team of global professionals provides private capital advisory (PCA), fundraising and secondary liquidity solutions to private equity, credit, real asset and infrastructure firms through their unparalleled access to a broad network of funds and investors.

Primary FundraisingSecondary Liquidity Solutions

Primary Fundraising

Fundraising to the next level

Through our affiliate Capstone Partners, our primary capital advisory business works on behalf of GPs, to raise funds through its vast network of LPs by positioning the fund strategy and providing transparency. Our PCA professionals are able to diversify sources of funding for GPs around the world.

  • Leading global agent with stable team
  • Highly selective client focus
  • Dynamic, process-driven approach
  • Proven fundraising success

Notable Transactions

  • Placement agent for Align Capital III, a $620 million fund focused on lower middle market buyout investments in North America
  • Placement agent for Amulet Capital III, a $1.2 billion fund focused on value-oriented investments in healthcare services
  • Placement agent for Arctos Sports Partners I, a $2.1 billion fund focused on minority positions in pro sports franchises
  • Placement agent for Atlas Capital Resources IV, a $3.1 billion fund focused on control investments in distressed opportunities
  • Placement agent for RiverGlade Capital II, a $453 million fund focused on lower mid-market healthcare investments

Secondary Liquidity Solutions

Providing creative capital solutions to GPs and LPs

Our secondary capital advisory experts work together with GPs and LPs to provide liquidity sources to those looking to monetize illiquid assets. Our professionals have worked with many of the world’s largest, most sophisticated institutional investors on leveraging the secondary market through structures such as sponsor-led transactions, fund liquidity solutions, secondary directs, management company monetization, fund valuation and sales.

Notable Transactions

  • Adviser to Shin Kong Life Insurance with respect to the divestment of buyout, growth and infrastructure LP fund interests
  • Adviser to Crescent Capital Partners, an Australian private equity firm, on the establishment of a single-asset continuation vehicle for Healthcare Australia, a leading workforce solutions and direct case healthcare services provider
  • Adviser to a leading Japanese financing institution on the $3.4 billion sale of a portfolio of buyout and infrastructure fund and co-investment LP interests

Secondary Market Publications

Mizuho | Greenhill’s Private Capital Advisory team publishes a semi-annual review of the secondary market. We rely on insights from our global team who work closely with some of the largest and most influential limited partners, general partners and other market participants on a regular basis. The results of our discussions, surveys and research are contained within this report, along with Greenhill transaction information and known market data.

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Mizuho's 2023 acquisition of Greenhill brings a world-class organization with reputation and decades of expertise in M&A, restructuring and private capital advisory. Serving large companies and investors across industries, our highly specialized team of professionals have extensive experience in buy side, sell side, special committee, defense and activism.
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Mizuho acquired Capstone Partners in 2022 to add fundraising capabilities to its alternative investment practice. Capstone’s accomplished team of global professionals provide private capital advisory and fundraising to private equity, credit, real asset and infrastructure firms through their unparalleled access to a broad network of funds and investors.
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