Lexington Partners is the largest independent manager of secondary acquisition and co-Investment funds in the world, founded in 1994. Lexington manages approximately $55 billion of which an unprecedented $14 billion was committed to the firm's ninth fund (Lexington Capital Partners IX, closed in January 2020). This renders it the largest dedicated secondaries pool of capital ever raised at the time.
Lexington Partners was founded by Brent R. Nicklas. Formerly a founding member of Landmark Partners, Nicklas helped pioneer the formation of the secondary market and was involved in some of the earliest secondary deals dating back to 1993.Lexington Partners is headquartered in New York with offices in Boston, Menlo Park, London, Hong Kong, Santiago, São Paulo and Luxembourg.