BlackSwan Partners is a private equity firm led by Riad M. Abrahams and David A. Janke. Established in 2007, the firm will invest in select operating company and real estate opportunities.
Within today's competitive landscape, BlackSwan Partners brings a nuanced approach to private equity investing.
With Maverick Capital's strategic backing, BlackSwan Partners combines the best of both worlds for management teams and their companies: small-firm access, focus and attention with large-scale, institutional knowledge and networks.
Given this structure, BlackSwan's investment professionals work side-by side with management teams creating a true collaborative relationship between capital, founders and key managers, resulting in significant value creation for investors and partner companies.
The firm will deploy capital to one of three strategies:
- Partnering with management teams to enhance growth and profitability
- Investing in stable assets with attractive current cash flow yields in addition to visible opportunities for asset appreciation
- Providing strategic capital to address special situations within operating, infrastructure and real estate assets including founder exits, subsidiary divestitures, sale/leasebacks and capital structure optimization.
Maverick Capital, Ltd. was founded in 1993 and has been registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an investment adviser since 1994. Maverick's primary offices are located in Dallas and New York. Additionally, Maverick conducts research and trading activities in London and has research offices in Baltimore, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Shanghai and Taipei. Maverick had total managed assets of over $9 billion as of December 31, 2006 and is owned by the firm's fourteen partners.
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