Our Focus
We work proactively with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and limited partners to solve their liquidity and capital needs. We make investments into companies and venture funds as well as public market investments.
Private Equity
The Private Equity team invests primarily in late-stage companies who have demonstrated commercial viability and have a strong market presence creating high barriers to entry with real defensive moats. We have extensive experience in technology, food and beverage, hospitality and luxury goods.
We believe management teams and entrepreneurs are the most crucial component to success and therefore we look to partner closely with those that have a track record of success.
We have a deep rolodex of management teams that help create immediate efficiency and streamline businesses. Whilst we often take majority positions, we have taken minority stakes, and in both cases, we offer access to our partners and network resources. Our starting point is to assess how we bring value to any transaction.
In addition to traditional buyouts, the team actively search for opportunities to provide growth capital and minority investments. Here we can focus our time and effort on understanding our companies’ long-term growth plans and help management achieve their goals.
Special Situations
The Special Situations team is a dynamic, alpha-driven team that makes debt and equity investments in companies which offer downside protection but with the potential to deliver considerable upside.
The team specializes in investing in
Distressed, complex, or underappreciated assets
Cyclical, contrarian, or event-driven situations and
Broader market dislocations to identify attractive investment opportunities.
The team can rapidly assess if there is value in a deal and work efficiently to implement the optimal solution.
Real Estate
The Real Estate team invests in commercial real estate, residential and development projects in the USA, Canada, Europe and Asia.
The Real Estate team invests across assets from single properties to large portfolios. This includes offices, retail, multifamily, hospitality, industrial, senior living, healthcare, and land.
The team focuses on strategies covering the risk spectrum, deploying capital in core-plus, value-add or more opportunistic situations.
Public Markets
Public markets is a key focus for our firm and over the decades have managed to procure best in class relationships and knowledge to derive overarching performance.
Access to capital
This includes private pools, sovereign and institutional investors who have aligned interest in long-term value creation.
Financing and investment solutions
Experience and knowledge across the firm allows it to execute optimised financing structures for each transaction.
Operational
Ability to recruit and retain top industry teams, both in-house and at portfolio company level, allows investment opportunities to prosper.
Why Duration?
Duration has four characteristics that differentiates it from other investment firms:
Entrepreneurial-connect
Creative thinking and innovation are the cultural foundation of the organisation. It has had great success working with and backing entrepreneurs which has allowed it to build a differentiated network from where it sources unique opportunities.