Exploring the Frontiers of Secondary and Co-investment Strategies

Moderator

Trey Muldrow

Partner

Trey Muldrow is a partner in Weil’s Private Equity practice and is based in New York. Trey’s practice focuses on advising private equity firms, portfolio companies, sovereign wealth groups and private and public companies on market-leading transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, carve outs and other complex transactions. Trey also regularly represents intermediaries, buyers and sellers in asset manager mergers and acquisitions and complex GP-led single and multi-asset transactions. Prior to joining Weil, Trey was the partner in charge of the New York office of another international law firm and a member of its global Corporate Steering Committee.

Panelists

Elliott Campbell*

Principal

Elliott Campbell joined HarbourVest in 2013 as a member of the secondary investment team, where he focused on analyzing, structuring, and monitoring secondary private equity opportunities, including traditional and complex transactions. He left HarbourVest to attend business school and rejoined the Firm in 2019. Elliott is a member of the direct co-investment team and focuses on sourcing, reviewing, executing, and monitoring direct co-investments.

Elliott rejoined the Firm from Johnson & Johnson, where he was a general manager on the Listerine brand with full P&L ownership. His responsibilities also included executing retail activations and developing creative and digital marketing content. Prior to that, Elliott spent two years with Wells Fargo Securities, where he was as an investment banking analyst in the Leveraged Finance Group focused on originating, structuring, underwriting, and executing debt financing to support mergers and recapitalizations.

Elliott received a BA in Political Science from Davidson College in 2011 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 2017.

Omar Jabri

Managing Director

Omar Jabri is a Managing Director of Lexington Partners primarily engaged in the evaluation of equity co-investments.

Prior to joining Lexington in 2011, Mr. Jabri was an analyst in investment banking at Evercore Partners.

Mr. Jabri graduated from Western University, Ivey School of Business with a BA in business administration.

Marcus Lawrence

Principal

Marcus Lawrence joined TPG in September 2023 as Principal at TPG NEXT, a seed and GP stakes
platform for investment management firms.

Prior to joining TPG, Mr. Lawrence was a Vice President at Wafra and was responsible for executing seed and mature strategic partnerships, structured GP financings, and secondaries with alternative sponsors. Previously, Mr. Lawrence was a Vice President at PineBridge Investments where he executed private equity secondaries and co-investments. He began his career at Citigroup Alternative Investments and Auldbrass Partners, a private equity secondaries firm.

Mr. Lawrence earned a BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Michael Taylor

Partner, Co-Investments

Mike is a member of the Co-Investment Team. In this role he sources, screens, executes, monitors, and coordinates the exit of co-investments.

He joined the Adams Street Co-Investment Team in 2020 after spending eight years as a member of the Adams Street Primary Investment Team.

Prior to joining the firm, he worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch as an Investment Banking Analyst within their Global Industrials Group. His work focused on the automotive sector.

Mike is a member of Adams Street’s Co-Investment Committee.

* indicates SEO Alumnus