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What Family Offices Are Getting Wrong About Valuing Their Private Equity Holdings in 2026

The Fastest-Growing Investor Class With the Least Rigorous Valuation Infrastructure

In Q1 2026, direct investments and private equity led asset class interest among family offices, with new family offices showing appetite at 83% each — the highest of any asset class tracked.

Alternatives now account for 42% of the average family office portfolio, up from 39% in 2023. Among family offices managing over $1 billion in assets, two-thirds plan to increase their allocations to private equity funds, representing a nearly 70% year-over-year rise from 2024. Nearly two-thirds of family offices expect to make six or more direct investments in the coming year.

Family offices have become one of the most consequential forces in private capital markets — deploying capital at scale, taking direct positions alongside or instead of traditional PE funds, and building portfolios of illiquid assets that require rigorous, ongoing valuation to manage responsibly.

The valuation infrastructure has not kept pace with the investment activity.

According to UBS research, the average family office works with more than five financial institutions. Without automation, that means manual work, inconsistent numbers and slow reporting. The back-office sophistication of most family offices — even those with $500M–$2B in AUM — sits somewhere between a mid-size family business and a lean institutional fund manager. The PE portfolio gets built with institutional-quality deal selection. The quarterly valuation of that portfolio gets done with spreadsheets, GP-reported NAVs accepted at face value, and DLOM adjustments applied mechanically without documentation.

This blog is written for family office CIOs, principals, and the external advisors who serve them. It identifies the eight most significant valuation errors that family offices are making with their PE holdings in 2026, explains why each error matters — in tax, estate planning, transaction, and governance terms — and provides the specific correction for each one.

The errors are not esoteric. They are systematic, widespread, and in several cases create financial exposures that are orders of magnitude larger than the cost of fixing them.

Part 1: The Family Office PE Landscape in 2026 — Why Valuation Has Never Mattered More

Before addressing the errors, the investment context matters. The family office PE portfolio of 2026 is structurally more complex than it was five years ago — and that complexity is the source of most of the valuation errors.

The Direct Investment Shift — From LP to Co-Investor to Principal

Family offices have emerged as one of the fastest-growing forces in private capital markets, with 70% now engaged in direct investing. The motivations are compelling: beyond the obvious fee advantages of avoiding the traditional 2-and-20 model, families seek greater control over investment decisions and transparency into portfolio company operations.

The shift from pure LP investing — where the family office writes a cheque into a fund and receives quarterly NAV reports from the GP — to direct investing and co-investing creates a fundamentally different valuation obligation. The LP investor can accept the GP’s reported NAV as the primary valuation input, with appropriate scepticism and challenge. The direct investor owns the equity directly — there is no GP producing a quarterly mark. The family office must produce its own valuation, from first principles, using DCF and market approach methodology, on whatever reporting cycle the office has adopted.

Only 43% of family offices have any exposure to venture capital and growth equity, with average portfolio exposure of 3.3%. Yet 65% plan to prioritize AI investments now or in the future — creating a significant gap between investment aspiration and current portfolio construction.

This gap — between the family office’s appetite for direct PE and VC investments and its analytical infrastructure for valuing those investments — is the structural context for every error discussed in this blog.

The Geopolitical Context — Why 2026 Valuations Are More Consequential Than Prior Years

The current geopolitical environment — Iran war, US tariff regime, supply chain restructuring — has created a valuation environment where stale marks are not merely imprecise but potentially misleading. As documented in our geopolitical risk premium guide, the WACC inputs for companies with energy cost exposure, tariff-affected supply chains, or Gulf-region revenue have moved materially since early 2026. A family office that is carrying direct investments at Q4 2025 valuations — without updating for the current macro environment — is managing its portfolio with a map that no longer reflects the terrain.

For a family office that uses portfolio valuations to make allocation decisions — rebalancing between PE and public markets, evaluating whether a direct holding should be sold or held through an additional investment cycle — the accuracy of the marks is not an administrative concern. It is the information basis for real capital decisions.

Part 2: The Eight Valuation Errors — What They Are and What They Cost

Error 1: Accepting GP-Reported NAV as Fair Value Without Independent Challenge

For family offices investing as LPs in private equity funds, valuation is typically based on manager-reported NAV rather than direct company-level analysis. This reflects the GP’s view of underlying portfolio value, but because it is both aggregated and lagged, it is often treated as a starting point for monitoring rather than a fully independent valuation.

The GP-reported NAV is a starting point — not a conclusion. GPs have legitimate incentives that can influence their marks: performance-linked compensation creates pressure to support valuations, fundraising activity creates reputational incentives to show strong portfolio performance, and the quarterly reporting cycle creates operational incentives to avoid the administrative burden of material mark-downs until absolutely necessary.

NAV reporting has evolved from a mere procedural task to a strategic tool. Getting NAV wrong doesn’t just create accounting headaches — it directly affects how much money flows to your investors and how they perceive your fund’s performance.

For a family office with $100M in LP fund interests, accepting GP NAVs without independent challenge means accepting marks that may be systematically optimistic — particularly in the current geopolitical environment, where portfolio companies with energy cost exposure or tariff-affected supply chains may have experienced economic deterioration that the GP has not yet fully reflected in its quarterly mark.

What independent challenge looks like in practice: Not a full independent valuation of every underlying portfolio company — that is impractical and unnecessary. It is a structured quarterly review that asks specific questions: How does the GP’s methodology compare to current comparable company multiples? Has the GP’s WACC been updated for the current rate and risk premium environment? Does the GP’s mark reflect any known operational deterioration since the last capital call? For holdings that represent more than 10% of the LP interest value, is the GP’s mark supported by a comparable transaction or recent financing event?

The questions do not require a CFA-qualified analyst to ask — they require a disciplined process. But for the holdings that warrant independent scrutiny, the analytical work behind the questions does require methodology expertise.

The financial consequence of not challenging: A family office that accepts GP-reported NAVs without challenge may be overstating its PE portfolio by 10–20% in the current environment. When LP-reported NAV is used as a starting point for the LP interest, applicable reporting frameworks and any factors indicating fair value may differ from NAV must be considered. For a $100M LP portfolio, a 15% overstatement is a $15M misrepresentation of the family’s net worth — with downstream consequences for estate planning, family governance, and capital allocation decisions.

Error 2: No Methodology for Direct Holdings — Excel Spreadsheets and Cost Basis

For direct investments — equity positions in operating companies where the family office is a direct shareholder — the GP-reported NAV does not exist. The family office must produce its own fair value determination, from first principles, using the same methodology that a PE fund uses for its quarterly portfolio company marks.

Most family offices do not have this methodology. What they have is a spreadsheet that shows the cost basis of the investment and, in the better cases, some notes on the company’s recent performance. The direct investment is carried at cost — or at the last round price if the company has raised external capital since the initial investment — without a systematic DCF or market approach analysis.

Carrying a direct investment at cost is only appropriate when cost approximates fair value — which is true immediately after an investment and for a limited period thereafter. As the business evolves — as revenue grows, as markets change, as the competitive environment shifts — cost becomes progressively less representative of fair value. A direct investment in a company that has grown from $2M to $8M ARR in the three years since the initial investment is not worth what the family office paid for it. Nor is a direct investment in a company whose core business model has been disrupted by AI competition.

Without disciplined portfolio data and mapped ownership structures, reporting ceases to be a convenience and becomes the weakest link in governance. Good reporting prevents silent drift across multi-asset portfolios before allocation breaches become strategic mistakes.

The financial consequence: A family office with $50M in direct investments carried at cost may be holding positions that are worth anywhere from $20M to $150M in aggregate fair value. The difference is not knowable without a methodology — which means the family’s investment committee is making allocation decisions with no reliable information about whether the direct portfolio is generating returns or destroying value. For estate planning purposes, the cost basis number is potentially both wrong and legally problematic under IRC Section 2031 (which requires fair market value, not cost, for estate tax purposes).

Error 3: Using the Same DLOM for Every Private Holding

The Discount for Lack of Marketability — the reduction in value applied to private company equity to reflect its illiquidity relative to publicly traded shares — is one of the most consequential and most misapplied inputs in private company valuation.

Most family offices that apply a DLOM at all apply it mechanically — a uniform 25–35% discount applied to every private holding regardless of the investment’s specific characteristics. This mechanical approach ignores the substantial variation in marketability across different types of private investments:

A family office’s direct minority stake in a profitable, growing private company with multiple potential strategic acquirers in a sector experiencing active M&A activity deserves a DLOM at the lower end of the range — perhaps 15–20% — because the path to liquidity is relatively clear and relatively near.

The same family office’s minority stake in a family-controlled private company with no external shareholders, no formal governance, and a controlling family that has no intention of selling in the next decade deserves a DLOM at the higher end — 35–45% — because the minority interest has almost no realistic path to liquidity.

Discounts for illiquidity or lack of marketability should only be applied when supported by the valuation method, facts and circumstances, and the relevant fair value framework. Applying them mechanically or inconsistently across similar assets introduces subjectivity that is difficult to defend. Each adjustment should be tied explicitly to the valuation methodology being used and supported by observable inputs or documented reasoning.

The financial consequence: A DLOM that is 15 percentage points too high on a $20M direct investment understates the fair value by $3M — with downstream consequences for estate planning valuations, family wealth reporting, and investment performance measurement. A DLOM that is 15 percentage points too low overstates the fair value by the same amount — creating a misleading picture of the portfolio’s worth that will be corrected when the investment is eventually sold or liquidated.

Error 4: Accepting the Backsolve Method Without Questioning the Preferred Stock Terms

For venture-backed direct investments — portfolio companies that have raised preferred equity at a defined price per share — the backsolve method is a common valuation shortcut. The logic is straightforward: the company recently raised capital from sophisticated investors at a specific price, so that price reveals the fair value of the enterprise. Apply the recent round price to the total shares outstanding to get enterprise value.

The problem is that the backsolve method conflates the preferred stock price with the enterprise value and the common equity value — and it ignores the economic rights embedded in the preferred stock that make it more valuable than common equity.

A company that raised a Series B at a $30M post-money valuation has a $30M implied enterprise value only if the Series B preferred stock has no liquidation preference, no anti-dilution rights, and no participation feature — which is almost never the case. In a typical Series B structure, the preferred stock has a 1x non-participating liquidation preference at minimum — meaning that in a sale at any price below $30M, the preferred shareholders receive their invested capital before common shareholders receive anything. The common stock FMV, properly determined using the OPM, is materially lower than the per-share value implied by the round price.

For a family office that invested in the Series A or as a common stock direct investor, using the Series B price as the fair value of its common stock position systematically overstates the value of the investment. The OPM or PWERM — the same methodology used in a 409A — is required to properly allocate the enterprise value across the capital structure.

The financial consequence: A family office with $10M in common stock and seed preferred across five portfolio companies may be overstating its venture portfolio by 30–50% if it is using round prices without capital structure allocation. For estate planning purposes — particularly for a family whose estate will include these venture holdings — the overstatement creates a tax liability that is not supported by the actual fair value of the assets.

Error 5: No Geopolitical Risk Premium in the WACC for Affected Holdings

As documented in detail in our Iran war valuation impact blog and geopolitical risk premium guide, the 2026 macro environment requires explicit geopolitical risk premium adjustments to the WACC for portfolio companies with energy cost exposure, tariff-affected supply chains, or Gulf-region revenue.

Most family office direct investment valuations use a WACC that was determined at the time of the initial investment — sourced to the rate environment and risk premium environment of 2022, 2023, or 2024. These WACCs are stale in two dimensions: the risk-free rate has moved (the 10-year Treasury as of April 2026 is materially different from December 2023), and the geopolitical risk premium — which did not need to be explicitly modelled in most valuations before 2026 — is now a required input for any portfolio company with the relevant exposure.

A family office direct investment in a manufacturing company that sources 40% of its inputs from China — at 125% tariff rates — requires a WACC that reflects the company’s current risk profile, not the risk profile it had when the tariff rate was 7.5%. The difference in WACC can be 200–300 basis points for companies with significant tariff exposure. At a standard DCF horizon, this moves the enterprise value by 15–25%.

The financial consequence: A family office carrying a $15M direct investment in a tariff-affected manufacturer at a pre-tariff WACC may be overstating the position by $2–4M — without knowing it, because no one has updated the model.

Error 6: Inconsistent FX Treatment Across International Holdings

In multi-entity structures, inconsistent FX treatment is another source of error. If different entities apply different rates, timing conventions, or translation methodologies, the aggregated portfolio view becomes unreliable. What appears to be a valuation movement may simply be a currency effect applied inconsistently across holdings.

Family offices with international PE holdings — European buyouts, Asian growth equity, Middle Eastern real assets — face a specific valuation challenge in 2026: the geopolitical environment has created significant FX volatility that interacts with the underlying business valuations. An investment in a UK-based portfolio company may show a 10% increase in GBP terms and a 3% decrease in USD terms — or vice versa — depending on the timing of the FX conversion and the rate used.

Many family offices aggregate their portfolio performance using whatever FX rate their accounting system pulls on the reporting date. This produces portfolio-level performance numbers that mix FX effects with underlying business value creation — making it impossible to distinguish between a portfolio company that is genuinely creating value and one whose apparent USD return is entirely a function of currency movement.

The correct approach: Establish a documented FX policy — spot rate, month-end rate, or quarter-average rate — applied consistently to all international holdings. Produce performance attribution that separately identifies the FX component of return from the underlying business value creation. This is standard practice at institutional PE funds and should be standard at any family office with meaningful international exposure.

Error 7: Missing the Estate Planning Valuation Trigger — When the Portfolio Composition Changes

Estate planning for wealthy families typically involves a set of valuations — of the family’s operating business, private equity holdings, and other illiquid assets — that were conducted at the time of the estate plan’s creation and updated at irregular intervals thereafter. The family office PE portfolio that existed when the estate plan was last updated may bear little resemblance to the current portfolio — new direct investments have been made, prior investments have matured, valuations have moved.

Under IRC Section 2031 and the applicable gift tax regulations, the fair market value of assets included in an estate must reflect the value at the time of the taxable event — not the value at the time of the last formal valuation. A family that makes a significant gift of a PE portfolio interest — whether directly or through a trust structure — must have a current, supportable fair value for the gifted interest.

More next-generation family members are moving into leadership roles, increasing demand for greater transparency and better technology that matches the growing complexity of family office investments. As wealth transfers from founders to next-generation family members accelerate — through gifting programmes, trust structures, and estate planning — the PE portfolio valuations underlying those transfers are subject to IRS scrutiny. A family that transfers a $20M PE portfolio interest using a three-year-old valuation, without updating for the current market environment, is creating a tax audit risk that the IRS specifically targets.

The financial consequence: An undervalued gift transfer saves gift tax in the short term but creates an audit exposure that, if challenged successfully, results in back taxes, penalties, and interest. An overvalued gift transfer wastes lifetime gift tax exemption. Both errors are avoidable with current, market-calibrated valuations.

Error 8: No Systematic Quarterly Review Process — Managing by Exception Rather Than System

The most pervasive error across family offices is not a specific methodology mistake — it is the absence of a systematic quarterly review process for PE holdings. Without a documented process, PE valuations are updated when something forces it: a new financing round, a significant operational development, an impending gift transfer, an auditor inquiry. Between these forced events, the portfolio is carried at stale marks.

Backward-looking reports explain history. Forward-looking reporting protects capital before stress appears. As families expand across asset classes and jurisdictions, fragmentation becomes a hidden risk. Financial data flows from asset managers, PE firms, custodians, and accounting systems, but rarely reconciles into one defensible view.

A systematic quarterly review process for a $100M PE portfolio does not require valuing every holding to full analytical depth every quarter. It requires a tiered approach:

Tier 1 — Quarterly update (holdings above 5% of PE portfolio): A full methodology refresh — updated WACC, current comparable company multiples, updated cash flow projections. Documented in a valuation memo.

Tier 2 — Semi-annual update (holdings between 1–5% of PE portfolio): A lighter-touch review — updated comparable multiples applied to prior-period financials, WACC check for material market movement. Documented in a brief update memo.

Tier 3 — Annual update (holdings below 1% of PE portfolio): A full refresh at least once per year, with a trigger-event check each quarter (material operational development, new financing event, significant comparable multiple movement).

This tiered process produces a portfolio that is always reasonably current — with the analytical effort concentrated where it is most material.

Part 3: The Direct Investment Valuation Framework — What Institutional Quality Looks Like

For family offices with significant direct investment programmes, institutional-quality valuation requires the same framework that a PE fund applies to its portfolio company marks. Here is exactly what that framework includes.

The Quarterly Mark — Income and Market Approach

Every direct holding that represents more than 2% of the PE portfolio should receive a quarterly valuation using both the income approach (DCF) and the market approach (comparable company multiples). The two approaches serve different purposes: the DCF captures the company’s specific financial trajectory and the discount rate appropriate to its risk profile, while the market approach provides a market-calibrated cross-check against what comparable businesses are trading at.

The comparable company analysis must use current data — multiples pulled as of the quarter-end date, not carried forward from prior quarters. In the current environment, where sector multiples have moved materially in both directions (energy sector up significantly, SaaS compressed, manufacturing affected by tariff exposure), carrying forward prior-quarter comparables produces systematically incorrect market approach indications.

The WACC used in the DCF must be sourced to the valuation date. As documented in our M&A surge and WACC complexity analysis, the current rate environment makes WACC precision more consequential than in prior years. A WACC from six months ago may be 50–150 basis points off the current market — which moves the DCF conclusion by 8–15% on a 5-year explicit forecast.

The Valuation Memo — The Documentation Standard

Every quarterly valuation should be documented in a brief valuation memo — not a 40-page report, but a structured summary that captures: the valuation methodology, the key inputs (WACC, comparable multiples, projection assumptions), the concluded value, the change from the prior quarter, and the primary drivers of the change.

The memo serves three purposes: it creates an audit trail for the family’s accountants and external advisors, it provides the documentation basis for estate planning valuations, and it enables the investment committee to understand why the portfolio value has moved — distinguishing between market-driven changes (comparable multiple compression) and company-specific changes (revenue growth, margin improvement, operational deterioration).

The GP NAV Challenge Process

For LP fund interests, the systematic quarterly review described above should include a structured challenge of the GP’s reported NAV. The challenge does not require independently valuing every portfolio company — it requires asking specific, documentable questions about the GP’s methodology and cross-checking the GP’s marks against observable market data.

The specific questions that distinguish a rigorous LP challenge from a passive acceptance of the GP’s report are: What comparable company multiples did the GP use, and how do they compare to the current market? Has the GP’s WACC been updated for the current rate environment? For holdings that represent more than 20% of the fund’s reported NAV, what specific methodology and inputs supported the mark? Have any triggering events occurred since the last mark that the GP has not yet reflected?

These questions are not hostile to the GP — they are the questions a sophisticated co-investor would ask. Most GPs with institutional-quality investors welcome them, because they signal that the LP is engaged and informed rather than passive.

Part 4: The Tax and Estate Planning Consequences — Why Getting This Right Is Urgent

For family offices, the PE portfolio valuation is not only an investment management tool. It is the foundation of several financial and legal decisions that carry significant tax consequences.

Gift and Estate Tax — The IRS Scrutiny on PE Holdings

PE and VC are core holdings for family offices, with allocations often reaching 10–25% for single-family offices and 5–20% for multi-family offices. For a single-family office with $500M in total AUM, the PE portfolio may represent $75–125M in assets that will eventually be subject to estate tax, gift tax, or both.

The IRS is acutely aware that private company valuations are the primary mechanism through which wealthy families manage estate and gift tax exposure. The valuation discount strategies that family offices use — minority interest discounts, DLOM, restricted shares — are specifically targeted in IRS audit programmes. A PE portfolio valuation that is not built on a documented, market-calibrated methodology is more vulnerable to IRS challenge than one that is.

For gift transfers specifically — which are constrained by the lifetime gift tax exemption and its current uncertainty — a valuation that understates the fair value of the transferred interest by 20% creates a gift tax underpayment that the IRS can collect at any time within the relevant statute of limitations. At the 40% gift tax rate, a $5M understatement of fair value creates a $2M tax liability plus penalties and interest.

The Generation-Skipping Transfer — Double Scrutiny

For family offices using generation-skipping transfer structures — dynasty trusts, direct skip transfers, taxable distributions — the PE portfolio valuations underlie both the gift tax analysis and the GST tax analysis. The IRS applies scrutiny at both levels. A valuation methodology that the IRS successfully challenges produces liability at both the gift tax rate and the GST tax rate — a combined exposure that can be substantial.

The Buy-Sell Agreement — Stale Valuations Create Disputes

Many family offices that co-invest with other family offices or strategic partners have buy-sell agreements governing the disposition of shared holdings. Buy-sell agreements typically reference fair market value — which must be determined at the time of the triggering event (death, divorce, departure of a family member, disagreement between co-investors).

A buy-sell agreement that references a stale valuation — or that uses a formulaic approach (fixed multiples, book value) that no longer reflects current market conditions — creates the conditions for a dispute when the triggering event actually occurs. In the current environment, where market conditions have moved materially since most buy-sell agreements were last updated, the risk of a valuation dispute at the buy-sell event is higher than at any point in recent years.

Part 5: The Solution — What Institutional-Quality PE Valuation Looks Like for a Family Office

Institutional-quality PE valuation for a family office does not require a dedicated in-house valuation team. It requires a documented process, a qualified analytical partner, and a quarterly rhythm that keeps the portfolio current.

What Synpact Provides for Family Office Clients

Synpact produces quarterly PE portfolio valuations for family office clients on a white-label basis — delivered in the family office’s reporting format, branded with the family office’s name if required, at the analytical standard that satisfies the family’s external accountants, estate planning attorneys, and co-investors.

For each direct holding, the quarterly deliverable includes: a three-approach valuation (DCF, market approach, prior transaction cross-check), a WACC build sourced to the measurement date with geopolitical risk premium assessment where applicable, a current comparable company screen with documented selection criteria and sourcing, a capital structure allocation (OPM or PWERM as appropriate) for venture-stage holdings, and a concluded fair value with supporting sensitivity analysis.

For LP fund interests, the quarterly deliverable includes: a structured GP NAV challenge memo that applies the specific questions described above to each material fund position, a market-based cross-check of the GP’s methodology against current comparable data, and a concluded adjustment — if any — to the GP’s reported NAV.

The annual deliverable includes an estate planning valuation memo for each holding — in the format required by the family’s estate planning attorneys for gift and estate tax purposes, documented to the standard required for IRS audit defence.

Turnaround: Quarterly valuation package for a 10–15 holding portfolio: 10–14 business days from complete brief submission. Annual estate planning memo: 7–10 business days

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Part 6: The Conversation to Have With Your Family’s CPA and Estate Attorney

For family office principals reading this blog, here are the specific questions to raise with your CPA and estate planning attorney before your next quarterly reporting cycle.

On direct holdings: “Are our direct investments carried at cost, at round price, or at a quarterly fair value determination? If cost or round price — when was the last time a formal valuation was conducted, and does it reflect current market conditions?”

On LP fund interests: “Are we accepting GP-reported NAVs without challenge? What process do we have for evaluating whether the GP’s methodology reflects current market conditions — specifically the 2026 geopolitical environment?”

On the DLOM: “What DLOM are we applying to our private holdings? Is it the same for every holding, or is it differentiated based on the specific liquidity characteristics of each investment?”

On estate planning: “Do our current PE valuations support the gift transfers we are planning? Have they been updated for the 2026 market environment? If challenged by the IRS, could we defend the methodology?”

On the quarterly process: “Do we have a documented quarterly valuation process? Does it use current market data and a consistent methodology? Is it producing documentation that an auditor or the IRS could review?”

If the answers reveal gaps — and for most family offices, they will reveal at least some — the appropriate next step is establishing a quarterly PE valuation process with a qualified analytical partner. The cost of that process is modest relative to the portfolio size. The cost of the errors it prevents — in IRS exposure, in misallocated capital, in estate planning disputes — is orders of magnitude larger.

The PE Portfolio Is the Family’s Most Valuable Asset — and Its Least Rigorously Valued One

Alternatives now account for 42% of the average family office portfolio. Two-thirds of family offices managing over $1 billion plan to increase their PE allocations — a 70% year-over-year rise.

The PE portfolio is often the largest, the most illiquid, and the most consequential component of a family office’s assets. It is also, for most family offices, the component that receives the least rigorous, systematic valuation attention — carried at cost, accepted from GPs without challenge, and updated only when something forces the issue.

The eight errors in this blog are not obscure technical failures. They are systematic gaps in the valuation infrastructure of most family offices — gaps that create IRS exposure, misrepresent the family’s net worth for allocation decisions, and undermine the estate planning work that the family’s attorneys are constructing on top of valuations that may not be defensible.

The solution is a documented quarterly process, a qualified analytical partner, and the discipline to treat the PE portfolio with the same rigorous valuation attention that the family’s CPA applies to its tax returns and its estate attorneys apply to its trust structures.

Synpact provides that analytical infrastructure — at institutional quality, at family office economics, with the documentation standard that protects the family’s interests when the IRS or a co-investor asks the question.

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