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Spectrum of conventional to complex clients, strategies and offering structures (onshore-offshore).
Whether its fund or firm product strategy, execution or on going advisory support for an area of stress today’s fund manager seeks a more viable option to succeed (on an enterprise wide level) on a highly pragmatic and scalable basis. Our Clients gain added value of our deep industry experience working with the spectrum of fund manager organizations to curb the business pitfalls and increase the likely-hood of asset gathering success. Through the maze of business and investor marketing complexities, as a boutique firm we help to curb costly legal and business mistakes. Clients gain strategic value of projecting to its target investors, a private fund manager supported by professional and viable support to gain a competitive advantage.
Just a few of our client examples.
- Launching a private equity segregated series structure for family office.
- Launching hedge fund and investment advisory organization for managed futures strategy across registered CPO and CTA.
- Launching for a US based investment manager, a private equity fund master-feeder structure offering a loan origination strategy and reorganization from a closed ended strategy to an open ended strategy for a Delaware and offshore segregated series structure.
- Work with a pioneer “hedge fund” portfolio manager formerly of such firms a AQR Capital and Magnetar Capital.
- Working with a hybrid venture capital, private equity, hedge fund firm to create a complex Delaware “umbrella” segregated series offering multiple strategies to US investors.
- Working with a well established offshore manager entering into multiple sub-advisory and manager of manager relationships and expertise for a niche insurance linked offering strategy.
- We worked with one of the first insurance linked hedge funds offered in the U.S. to QIBs and non QIB investors.
- Trusted resource and support to well known New York and Connecticut law firms within the alternative asset management.
Select stand alone, master-feeder U.S. and offshore, venture capital, private equity, hedge fund, SEC, NFA registered or exempt advisers across start-ups to well established asset manager organizations.
AON Consulting, Ltd.
Fund of Funds For global investment consultancy firm, worked with AON COO and Executives across analysis and recommendation in connection with execution of private equity fund of funds structure and coordination with global law firm, Aon teams, counter-parties and people to facilitate best practices infrastructure and execution of $250Ml AUM seed investment into offshore private equity funds.
Guggenheim Asset Management, facilitated execution of cornerstone strategy for Bank of Ireland umbrella structure quarterbacked for AIFM across fund formation, collaborating with outside counsel, organizational and regulatory framework, sub-advisory relationship, fund manager due diligence, onboarding and operations across umbrella structure for spectrum of strategies.
Azarias Capital, long-short equity strategy, for idea generation to launch and asset acquisition for start-up equity manager across pre-launch strategy, fund and firm execution, best practices infrastructure and scalable support across legal, COO, CFO and CCO functions to facilitate allocations across high net worth, wealth management firms and family offices.
Start-Up – Benetine Technologies, Onshore-Offshore long-short equity fund (Cayman Islands master-feeder) strategy, represented former pioneer manager of well known U.S. institution Alliance Bernstein, created governing structure for principals, infrastructure, fund products and provide as needed c-level support to facilitate asset gathering of offshore assets.
Anchor Risk Advisors, Catastrophic bond and reinsurance, (master-feeder) managed account, swap strategy, executed (onshore-offshore) Cayman Islands fund offering framework and implemented front, middle to back office infrastructure across pooled investment funds, managed accounts and sub-advisors. Collaborated with re-insurance portfolio pioneer to facilitate pragmatic growth to tackle the toughest business challenges and win institutional assets.
XL Re, Bermuda publicly traded reinsurance company, Facilitated seed relationships, investor due diligence readiness, and ultimate investments by well known institutional investors XL Re.
Emerging Fund Managers Across Firm Augmentation, Regulatory Framework, Setting up a Hedge Fund, Starting a Private Equity Fund
Argent Financial Group, Centaur Financial Group, Caritas, leading multi “private equity” oil and gas and “hedge fund” convertible arbitrage strategies, number of registered investment advisers located in the U.S and affiliates across Connecticut, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Bermuda and California, engaged by COO to perform enterprise level diagnostic review, gap analysis, recommendation report in connection with U.S. and offshore funds, equity funds, registered investment advisers, operations and compliance framework. Objective to increase efficiencies, create robust best practices infrastructure to materially reduce risk, legacy costs, and augment strategy to attract and win institutional assets from in addition to existing high net worth and family offices base. Collaborated and worked closely with COO to provide co-sourced c-level executive support across the General Counsel and CCO role, work with outside counsel across securities law, SEC regulations, fund offerings, compliance, firm and trading operations to mitigate risk and substantially reduce areas of business stress and cost resulting in the successful execution of business strategy and material reduction in cost of legacy infrastructure.
Edgewood Capital, private equity loan origination strategy, for a well established private equity firm engaged to provide a diagnostic review, compliance gap analysis, recommendations and execute solutions to attract assets from hedge fund investors in addition to established private equity investors and dedicated CCO and CFO collaborative support during asset raise.
AJ Sterge Investment Strategies, hedge fund and private equity fund reinsurance strategy, for pioneers in the reinsurance asset management industry engaged by former CEO of subsidiary of BNP Paribas across offering product structures (U.S. and Offshore) and a viable organizational framework to support institutional assets leading to a strategic relationship with Magnetar Capital, a leading Chicago based asset management group.
Domestic and Global private hedge and equity fund managers
well established multi-strategy, mutual fund and private fund investment advisory firm, collaborate with teams executive in connection with focused gap analysis across fund offerings, counter-parties and supporting organizational framework. Results materially reduced legacy costs and augment solicitation strategy geared toward high net worth and institutions across hedge fund offerings, managed accounts, strategic marketing, compliance and operational assets.
Nikko Asset Management, across the execution of hedge funds, managed accounts, sub-advisory, UCIT offering structures, recommendations and supported CEO and CIO on the implementation of a global best practices infrastructure across compliance, fundamental business, fund offering, operational, risk management, legal and marketing strategy framework for global fund of funds supervised by several SEC investment and commodity advisers managing 10 billion in AUM. Worked closely with portfolio managers across marketing and business strategy and execution of fund and managed account offerings for global fund of funds business.
Nikko Alternative Asset Management, US offshore & onshore fund of funds alternative multi-fund strategies, including largest fixed income strategy offered in Japan across U.S. and offshore early stage or emerging asset management firms such as a global fixed income fund, c-level advisory support and expertise during asset gathering execution and management of material institutional assets, seed investment and working capital.
Caritas-Cornerstone, hedge & private equity), California private equity oil and gas SEC registered investment adviser. Engaged by parent company, Argent Financial across fund offering, marketing, operations, general counsel and COO support on behalf of COO of Argent Financial.
RESS Capital, represented offshore Swedish fund manager in connection with U.S. sub-advisory relationship to manage reinsurance strategy for large US alternative asset manager.
Closed End Trading, LLC, represent pioneer portfolio manager, a former high level executive across such firms as AQR and Magnetar Capital from inception through growth of hedge fund specializing in closed end funds from formation, fund offering, and build out of successful firm, teams and people.