The decisions and deadlines that set your first close date.
A short guide for first-time and emerging managers raising buyout, growth, venture, private credit, real assets and fund of funds vehicles.
What's inside
Your first 30 days: five moves that protect your closing date
The five decisions that shape everything else
A six-phase launch timeline, from T-12 to year one
The 30-item critical path, each with an owner and a done-when standard
A 16-point first-close readiness assessment
Get the Guide
Fifteen pages. Free. Built for managers nine to twelve months from first close.
Where First Closes Slip
Most delays come from three places a manager controls: the entity and bank account chain, investor onboarding, and a waterfall nobody modeled against the draft LPA. This guide puts those on the calendar before they cost you a month.
