Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• PLACEMENT AGENT
  
  a company that specializes in finding institutional investors that are willing and able to invest in a private equity fund. Sometimes a private equity fund will hire a placement agent so the fund partners can focus on making and managing investments in companies rather than on raising capital.
  
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