The Alternative Investments team is focused on direct investments in four key asset classes.

Each vertical has a dedicated team, but leverages expertise across the entire organization and the firm’s broader network to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns with differentiated value-add strategies.

Private Equity

The Private Equity team is focused on active value-add investing in attractive lower middle market businesses that are led by exceptional management teams and undergoing a strategic inflection point that will drive exponential growth.

This strategy is unrivaled amongst its peers as Manhattan West leverages the firm’s rolodex of executives (typically only seen at mega-funds) to conduct value-add & control investing in the lower middle market.

  • Active, operational approach with management teams
    creating value through network of strategic partners & industry executives
  • Value-add sectors
    including media, entertainment, consumer, sports, and tech-enabled services
  • Target ~25-100% ownership
    with mix of primary and secondary capital
  • Focus on businesses with strong cash flow
    and unique growth in defensive industries
  • $2-25mm equity check sizes
    enterprise values of <$100mm

Venture Capital

The Venture Capital team takes a pragmatic approach to late-stage, direct investing in addition to identifying and investing in the next great early-stage fund managers where there is a strategic fit.

  • Strategically invest in early stage funds with unique access
    that can also support direct investment deal flow
  • Direct late stage venture investments
    in consumer, enterprise software, and technology verticals
  • Co-invest
    with Tier 1 venture capital firms
  • Strong focus on companies with appropriate valuations
    and prospects for near term liquidity
  • In-depth network of relationships
    with operating companies and VC funds
  • $1-10mm equity check sizes
    enterprise values of >$100mm

Real Estate

The Real Estate team is uniquely positioned as an owner, operator, and manager with a primary focus on multi-family and industrial properties.

  • Invest in all major markets in Western US
    with a particular focus on Southern California
  • Target value-add and core plus assets
    but will consider opportunistic investments as well
  • Invest exclusively as a sponsor
    with hands-on, design-driven execution
  • Take an institutional approach
    to acquiring and managing sub-institutional real estate
  • Extensive operating experience
  • $5 – 15 million equity check sizes

Private Debt

The Private Debt team seeks to generate income and capital gains through direct and indirect investments in com­mercial loans to businesses located in the United States. Such investments may include, among other things, loan par­ticipations, asset-based loans, and individual or syndicated loans.

  • Geographic loan dispersion across the U.S.
  • Diversity in small business enterprise types
  • Loans underwritten to institutional standards
  • Act as a partner to understand each borrower’s set of working capital needs

Our Edge

Our Edge comes from a hands-on and value-add approach to how capital is deployed within each of the core verticals.

  • Nimble and flexible approach
  • “Consulting Bench” of operating partners unrivaled amongst our peers
  • Focus on transparency and partnership