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The HarbourVest Toronto Team

Abigail Rayner

Principal

Toronto

About Abigail

Abigail Rayner joined HarbourVest in 2018 and leads our product specialist efforts focused on private market evergreen vehicles with an emphasis of bringing institutional quality products across private markets to high-net-worth clients and their advisors. Abigail also works on our infrastructure initiatives.

Abigail joined the Firm from Octopus Investments, a London based private markets manager. Prior to that, Abigail was with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in Toronto and London where she invested globally in both private equity (funds, secondaries, and direct co-investments) and direct infrastructure.

Abigail received an HBA (Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration) from Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario in 2008 and an MBA from the London Business School in 2014.

Continuation solutions encompass a host of transaction types in which a GP secures interim liquidity and/or additional primary capital for their LPs in a strongly performing asset, or set of assets, that the GP will continue to own and control. Specifically, they include continuation funds, new funds created by GPs for the purpose of acquiring the asset(s) that continue to be managed by the same GP and capitalized by one or several secondary buyers, or equity recapitalizations involving a direct equity or structured equity investment into a portfolio company. These transactions can also include a parallel investment from the GP’s latest fund into that same pool of assets (a “cross-fund trade”).