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The HarbourVest Boston Team

Ryan Kim

Vice President

Boston

About Ryan

Ryan Kim joined HarbourVest in 2018 and focuses on analyzing, structuring, and monitoring secondary private equity opportunities, including traditional and complex transactions.

Ryan joined the Firm from Mizuho Securities, where he was an investment banking analyst in the Financial Sponsors Group focusing on leveraged buyouts and acquisition financings.

Ryan received a BA (with honors) in Economics from the University of Chicago in 2016. 

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”).