Co-Investment

Co-investment is a structure in which a capital partner, often a limited partner already committed to a fund, invests directly alongside that fund in a specific position or a defined segment of its portfolio, typically to gain more concentrated exposure than a standard fund commitment provides, and often at more favorable economics reflecting the partner's willingness to take that concentrated exposure. In legal-asset finance, co-investment terms should be negotiated against the same underlying distributions, settlement or award bands, duration distributions, and appellate or collection-risk pricing for judgment positions, that govern how the fund itself underwrites the position, rather than against a separately negotiated, less rigorous estimate offered only to the co-investing partner. A co-investing partner should expect, and should demand, the same governance artifacts a fund's own underwriting process generates: a timestamped prediction record, a decision record referencing that prediction, and ongoing monitoring as the position's procedural posture evolves. Co-investment concentrates a partner's exposure by construction, which makes the legal-specific concentration axes, judge, legal theory, defendant relationship, particularly important for a co-investing partner to understand before committing, since a co-investment position that looks attractive in isolation may sit inside a broader correlation the partner has no independent way to see without access to the fund's full portfolio context.