Lexington Partners
Samantha Somple, CPA, currently serves as an Analyst at Lexington Partners since February 2024. Prior experience includes roles at EY, where Samantha advanced from FSO Assurance Intern to FSO Assurance Senior from January 2021 to January 2024. Prior to EY, Samantha worked at Cigna as a Senior Analyst in Risk & Underwriting and held an Analyst position in the same department. An Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at Vanderbilt University, Samantha provided academic support for the Essentials of Financial Reporting course. Internship experiences include Employee Benefits Intern at Hays Companies and Finance and Communications Intern positions at Mack Molding Company. Samantha holds a Master of Accountancy from Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Vanderbilt University.
Lexington Partners
Lexington Partners is one of the world’s largest and most successful independent managers of secondary private equity and co-investment funds. Since 1990, principals of Lexington Partners have organized 20 secondary funds and 10 co-investment pools with total capital of $55 billion. Our investors include more than 1,000 leading public and corporate pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, and family offices from more than 40 countries. Lexington Partners pioneered the development of the institutional secondary market 31 years ago and created one of the first independent, discretionary co-investment programs 23 years ago. Today, Lexington has acquired over 3,200 secondary interests through more than 590 secondary transactions with a total value in excess of $58 billion, including $16 billion of syndicated transactions. Invested $7.3 billion in over 430 co-investments alongside more than 170 sponsors and committed more than $2.6 billion to over 500 primary funds. Lexington’s success is based on the stability and experience of our professional team. Lexington’s 35 partners and principals each average over 17 years of alternative investment experience and more than 14 years together at Lexington. The firm’s partners and principals are supported by investment professionals skilled in the evaluation and analysis of global secondary, co-investment and primary opportunities and by a reliable team of investor relations, accounting and fund administration, and legal and compliance professionals. Lexington Partners is a global firm with seven offices strategically located in major centers for private equity and alternative investing – New York, Boston, Menlo Park, London, Hong Kong, Santiago, São Paulo, and Luxembourg. In addition, Lexington Partners has Senior Advisors covering Asia, Australia, Brazil, and the United States.