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Heritage Foundation is a US tax-exempt LP. It receives a capital call for 'Zenith Fund II'. The GP explains that part of the capital is for an 'AIV' (Alternative Investment Vehicle).

Why would the GP use an AIV for a specific deal?

  1. To invite outside co-investors, who are not existing LPs of the main fund at all, into just that one deal
  2. To restart the entire ten-year fund life clock and push out the contractual exit deadline for that specific asset
  3. To let the GP earn a boosted carried interest rate of 25 percent, above the usual 20%, on that one specific deal in the fund
  4. To structure a specific investment to avoid a tax or regulatory issue that the main fund cannot easily accommodate

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