Private Equity Business Information Model

The Private Equity Business Information Model is a structured map of the data entities that drive fund operations — from capital raising and deal execution through portfolio monitoring and exit. Entities are organized into foundational, transactional, and informational categories, with the relationships between funds, deals, vehicles, and investors laid out explicitly. It's delivered as an editable Word document, built to be adapted to your firm's own fund structure and terminology.

Why Fund Structures Resist a Generic Model

A generic customer/product/order template breaks almost immediately in private equity, because the thing being tracked isn't a sale — it's an ownership position that can be held across several legal vehicles at once. A single portfolio company investment is often split across a main fund, one or more parallel funds, and a co-investment vehicle, each with its own economics, so the relationship between "deal" and "fund" is many-to-many, not a lookup. Carried interest compounds the problem: it's allocated by deal or by fund depending on the waterfall structure, split among individual GP professionals, and subject to clawback — nothing like a standard commission calculation. Portfolio companies also acquire other companies through add-ons and roll-ups, which calls for a recursive ownership entity rather than a flat customer record. And an LP's commitment, its capital account, and its individual capital calls are three distinct entities with three different lifecycles that generic models routinely collapse into one.

What's Inside

• Foundational entities — Fund, Fund Family, Limited Partner, General Partner/Management Company, Portfolio Company, Investment Vehicle
• Transactional entities — Deal, Capital Call, Distribution, Co-Investment, Add-On Acquisition, Debt Facility
• Informational entities — Valuation/NAV, Carried Interest Allocation, Capital Account, Fund Performance
• Entity relationships mapping how funds, vehicles, deals, and investors connect
• Delivered as a fully editable Word document

How Teams Use It

• Scoping the data model for a fund administration, portfolio monitoring, or LP reporting system
• Aligning finance, deal teams, and IT on shared definitions of fund, deal, and commitment before a system selection
• Structuring master data management for LP and portfolio company records across multiple fund vehicles
• Briefing a new CDO, CTO, or vendor on how the firm's data needs to relate before committing to a schema

Who It's For

Data architects and CDOs at private equity firms and fund administrators, business architects scoping portfolio monitoring or LP reporting systems, and IT leaders evaluating or integrating fund administration platforms.