Lagoon Advisory Partners

Lagoon Advisory Partners

Lagoon Advisory Partners was founded in 2012 in Dubai with a mandate to address the sparse secondary market infrastructure in the Middle East, North Africa, India, and Turkey. The firm emerged at a time when international secondaries giants largely bypassed the region's smaller, complex LP stake sales, leaving family offices, regional banks, and sovereign-linked entities with maturing fund positions and limited exit options. Lagoon positioned itself as a buyer of these orphaned private equity fund interests. The firm acquires limited partner stakes across private equity, growth equity, and venture capital funds, concentrating on tail-end portfolios where remaining NAV is tied up in a small number of residual assets and the original sponsor has narrowed its focus. It also provides structured liquidity solutions — including preferred equity and NAV-based facilities — for fund managers and institutional portfolios holding illiquid stakes across the MENA region, Turkey, and India. Public record indicates the firm has been active in acquiring secondary positions from regional financial institutions seeking to reduce legacy alternative-asset exposures and meet regulatory capital requirements. The firm operates from Dubai, with transaction activity documented across the Gulf Cooperation Council states, Turkey, and South Asia. Team size and assets under management are not publicly disclosed. The advisory arm, referenced in official filings, suggests a dual revenue model combining principal secondary investing with fee-based advisory work for institutions restructuring fund commitment portfolios. Lagoon's structural differentiator is its role as a geographic specialist, not a global volume player. In a market where the typical secondaries transaction is too small or legally complex for a global mega-fund and too opaque for a generalist, Lagoon provides execution certainty by maintaining regional legal, regulatory, and relationship infrastructure that reduces frictional costs for sellers in Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Mumbai, and Istanbul — cities where standard LP transfer processes can take months.