We formed The Independent Sponsors Council to serve as a platform for networking and collaboration. It is one of five peer advisory groups under The Operators brand.
You may want to ask for advice, seek co-investors, vet investment theses, provide support, guidance, best practices, introductions or to find answers to your own dilemmas. After all, your best sources of insight may very well come from other Independent Sponsors, some of whom will have expertise in the areas in which you may feel less comfortable.
Independent Sponsors must find ways to perform the functions that whole staffs of business development, LP relations, deal teams, operating partners, and administrative team members conduct, and more, in traditional private equity funds. You therefore are responsible for numerous areas of responsibility, some areas of which you are clearly masters at, and some areas of which you are, perhaps, in a little over your head.