Associate, Private Equity Secondaries

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Job Type Full-time Description: The Associate will be a core member of HighVista's newly formed Private Equity Secondaries team, working directly with senior investment professionals to identify, evaluate, and execute GP-led transactions in the lower middle market. The role demands a rigorous, entrepreneurial professional who can underwrite complex continuation vehicle structures, build conviction on single-asset deals, and contribute meaningfully to a fast-growing strategy from its early stages. This is an exceptionally high-impact role for the level, with broad exposure to deal origination, relationship management, financial modeling, and investment committee processes. The successful candidate will bring prior experience in private equity, investment banking, or secondaries, and will possess a genuine intellectual curiosity for lower middle market businesses and the GP-led ecosystem Key Responsibilities: - Conduct rigorous due diligence on GP-led secondary transactions, including single-asset continuation vehicles - Build and maintain detailed financial models to evaluate GP-led opportunities, including bottoms up LBO analyses - Assess underlying portfolio companies across the G...