About

About The Firm

Sutton Hill provides fundraising support for private equity firms who seek to augment an existing placement agent or investor relations professional (or who have yet to hire one). Our clients include firms that are newly founded, making the jump from friends & family to institutional investors, spin-outs of larger funds, or firms managing multiple middle market funds.

Sutton Hill works on a month-to-month retainer basis alongside private equity GPs to add depth, breadth and responsiveness to their investor relations efforts. We provide dedicated bandwidth to ensure that investor matters are handled in a timely and thorough fashion.

What We’re Not:

Salaried employees requiring benefits and expecting a promotion
Middle layer between LPs and deal partners, but rather support deal partners can leverage to maximize investor interactions
Firm with a heavy cost structure, so we can perform the function of a placement agent or IR professional at a fraction of the cost
Placement agents that take a percentage fee of fund commitments

Long-Term Approach

Sutton Hill is designed to be a long-term partner that helps maintain strong LP relations before, during and after the fundraise:

Preservation of institutional memory
Find and deliver meetings with as many potential LPs as the client desires
Re-energize any potential LP who has “gone quiet” after an initial meeting
Make each marketing document as compelling as possible

Sutton Hill takes on many of the functions of a placement agent while remaining a long-term extension of staff for the private equity firm.

Our clients “punch above their weight” in terms of LP relations firepower and client service bandwidth.

Preference Toward a Lean Organization

Sutton Hill helps clients keep costs under control, minimize organizational creep, and enables our clients to focus on sourcing, executing and monetizing investments.