Stifel Institutional | Fund Placement

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Identifying Investment Opportunities That Drive Innovation and Uniting Them With Sophisticated Long-Term Capital Partners

Unequaled Expertise, Exceptional Communication, Outstanding Execution

For over four decades, Eaton Partners has been widely recognized as the world’s leading placement agent. Since the firm’s founding in 1983, we have participated in raising over $140 billion of institutional capital across more than 190 highly differentiated alternative investment funds and offerings, including private equity, private credit, real estate, real assets and hedge funds.

We begin by listening to you, ensuring we understand your investment strategy, current portfolio, risk management capabilities, internal infrastructure and differentiating factors. We combine this insight with our deep understanding of the institutional marketplace built up through long-standing relationships with influential decision-makers from leading institutions.

We have extensive experience working with many different types of alternative managers, enabling us to effectively communicate even the most complex strategies with clarity and confidence to the institutional investor community. We also are intimately familiar with LPs – what they want and how they work.

Our experienced execution team is often brought onsite to produce or refine key marketing materials, ensuring that all collateral needed to support the raise delivers an impactful message. Limited partners appreciate our ability to provide swift responses to due diligence questions, and clients appreciate our ability to handle the “heavy lifting” of LP requests.

We are not only the pioneers of fund placement, we are placement experts.

In January 2016, Eaton Partners became a wholly owned subsidiary and affiliate of Stifel Financial Corp., a leading middle-market investment bank, to further ensure Eaton Partners’ success at the highest level of the global placement business.

At Eaton Partners, we’re not just raising funds, we’re building firms. Learn how the Eaton team can partner with you and your firm to meet your goals.

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Experience

With ten offices worldwide, our reach is extensive and our dedication to capital raising is unparalleled. Our professionals have strong, long-held relationships with over 4,000 of the largest, most active institutional investors in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific. Our investor network, from pension funds and consultants to endowments and foundations, all have a desire to invest substantial capital, with the average commitment of $30 million.

60+ Professionals

We operate ten offices on three continents. Our global market expertise is combined with local know-how and connections.

~$14 Billion Raised

In the last 3 years, we have secured over 600 commitments across 65 mandates. This is an unrivaled industry track record.

85% of Funds Hit Hard Cap

In 2024, 6 of 7 fund raises exceeded or hit their hard cap. Our expertise and proven execution ensure that our clients are satisfied no matter their industry.

Capabilities

Private Fund Placement

Eaton Partners’ deep sector knowledge and unrivaled insight into the private fund market allows us to raise capital efficiently and effectively.

Private Credit

Eaton Partners has a broad and deep history of raising credit-focused funds. Our track record includes working for clients across the spectrum of credit strategies, such as: Corporate Credit, Specialty Credit, Structured Credit, Real Estate Credit, Distressed Credit, Special Situations, and Royalties / Offtakes

Private Equity

Eaton Partners’ deep sector knowledge and unrivaled insight into the private fund market allows us to raise capital efficiently and effectively. We thrive on working alongside the most innovative funds and consistently partner with the highest-quality fund managers. Over the past ten years, we are also proud to have raised more first-time institutional funds for established and emerging managers than any of our competitors.

Real Assets

Eaton Partners is proud to be recognized as the industry leader in the Real Assets space. We partner with best-in-class fund managers, corporate sponsors, and private companies to provide compelling, strongly differentiated opportunities for investors. Our deep relationships with Real Asset investors gives us a competitive advantage when seeking capital for our partners.

Real Estate

Eaton Partners has a long history raising real estate investment vehicles across funds, directs, separate managed accounts and secondaries. Our real estate team is highly entrepreneurial and has a long track record of being a first mover in the space. Prior mandates include both equity and debt focused strategies for first time managers and established firms seeking to diversify or expand their lines of business. Our goal is simple, a true partnership with our clients with the ultimate goal of finding the right capital partner.

First Time Funds

Eaton Partners has differentiated itself as the placement agent that has raised more capital for emerging managers than any of our competitors since inception. We define emerging managers as first-time institutional funds, spinout teams, or established platforms looking to expand their platforms with new product offerings, accelerate growth and enhance their LP base.

Private Capital Advisory

GP Solutions The Eaton Partners’ GP Solutions Team advises financial sponsors on GP-led secondary transactions and innovative liquidity solutions, including single and multi-asset continuation vehicles, strip sales, tender offers, fund-level preferred equity raises, and more. As part of the Stifel platform, we are able to bring together the expertise and institutional knowledge of a premier middle-market investment bank and a leading placement agent, to provide best-in-class advice and process execution to every client assignment. LP Solutions Eaton Partners’ LP Solutions Team serves as a leading advisor to institutional investors for the sale of limited partnership interests in alternative assets. Our professionals interact regularly with many of the world’s largest institutional investors to help actively manage their alternative asset portfolios through the secondary market. We maximize value for clients by leveraging our established buyer relationships, extensive market knowledge, and substantial execution experience. Direct Equity Eaton Partners leverage an extensive network of institutional investor relationships to raise fee-paying capital for funded and fundless sponsors. These transactions are handled on a deal-by-deal basis, and range across a variety of strategies, industry sectors, and geographies. Such transactions also include minority and majority equity investments raising primary and/or secondary capital, as well as independent sponsor acquisitions, take privates, and carve-outs, and more. Equity capital raises typically range from $25M to $250M, but can scale to an excess of $1B. GP Stakes Eaton Partners’ GP Stakes Team provides advisory services to sponsors seeking company-level capital solutions backed by the firm’s management fees, GP commitments, and/or carried interest. Solutions include the provision of minority equity stakes, preferred equity, management company loans, and other forms of structured capital. GPs often use proceeds to support future growth, facilitate succession objectives, or to enhance GP commitments. As the landscape for management company solutions continues to evolve, Eaton Partners remains well-positioned in helping clients achieve optimal outcomes.

Hedge Fund Placement

The Eaton Partners’ Hedge Fund Team successfully raises institutional capital for high-quality managers around the world. We work with our managers to help position their funds in the marketplace with specific messaging on team pedigree, strategy differentiation, and market opportunity. Eaton Partners significantly increases investor outreach, efficiently qualifies investor interest, expedites follow-up and closes on capital such that managers can focus on managing their portfolios throughout the fundraising process.

Notable Transactions

Undisclosed

M&A

Mergers & Acquisitions

Mergers & Acqusitions

Undisclosed

Software & Fintech

Mar 2023

$ 85,000,000

Advisor to Sponsor

Completed a Single Asset Continuation Vehicle

Private Capital Advisory

2024

$ 376,275,000

Placement Agent

Primary Fundraise

Private Capital Advisory

2024

$ 389,000,000

Advisor to Buyer

Mergers & Acquisitions

Private Capital Advisory

2023

$ 840,000,000

Fund IV

Education Technology, Industrial Technology, and Tech-Enabled Services

Private Fund Placement

2023

A$ 1,000,000,000

Crescent Capital Partners Fund VII

Middle Market Buyout

Private Fund Placement

2023

$ 850,000,0000

Solum Partners Fund II, L.P.

Value Add, Sustainable Food and Agriculture

Private Fund Placement

2023

$ 1,400,000,000

GrowthCurve Capital Partners I

Middle Market Buyout

Private Fund Placement

2023

$ 828,500,000

Formentera Partners Fund II

Upstream, PDP focused oil and gas, opportunistic development

Private Fund Placement

2023

€ 2,750,000,000

Arrow Credit Opportunities II

European NPLs and Non-Core Bank Credit

Private Fund Placement

2023

$ 2,400,000,000

JMI Equity XI

Growth Equity Tech and Software

Private Fund Placement

2023

$ 934,000,000

Sterling Investment Partners IV

MMBO Specialty Distribution and Business Services

Private Fund Placement

2023

$ 770,000,000

Sky Leasing V

Aviation Leasing

Private Fund Placement

2023

$ 405,000,000

Lyric Capital Royalty Fund II

Uncorrelated Music Royalties

Private Fund Placement

2022

$ 770,000,000

Private Capital Advisory

Premier Aircraft Leasing Asset Manager

Private Capital Advisory, First Time Funds

Jan 2023

Advisor to Seller

Mergers & Acquisitions

Transportation & Logistics

Dec 2022

$ 325,000,000

Crossplane Capital Fund II

Deep Value Industrial Specialist

Private Fund Placement

2022

$ 1,430,000,000

Fundamental Advisors LP Fund IV

Municipal Special Situations, Asset-Backed Credit

Private Fund Placement

2022

$ 113,400,000

Allied Industrial Partners

Middle Market Buyout

Private Capital Advisory

2022

€ 875,000,000

HitecVision's New Energy Fund

Clean Technology

Private Fund Placement

2022

$ 750,000,000

Assured Healthcare Partners Fund II

Structured Hybrid Capital Solutions in Healthcare Services

Private Fund Placement

2022

$ 555,000,000

Sole Source Capital Fund II

Lower Middle Market Buyout

Private Fund Placement

2021

$ 130,000,000

AE Industrial Structured Solutions Fund I

Specialty Industrial Structured Credit & Equity

Private Fund Placement

2021

$ 202,000,000

Orangewood Partners Fund II

Consumer Services/Retail; Healthcare

Private Fund Placement

2021

$ 42,000,000

Allied Industrials Partners

Middle Market Buyout

Private Capital Advisory

2021

$ 3,800,000,000

Oak Hill Capital Partners V

Consumer Services/Retail

Private Fund Placement

2021

$ 740,000,000

Bonaccord Capital Partners I

Minority Interests in Mid-Sized Managers

Private Fund Placement

2021

$ 1,100,000,000

CVC European Direct Lending Fund II

Middle Market European Direct Lending

Private Fund Placement

2020

$ 240,000,000

Jungle Ventures III

Southeast Asia Venture PE

Private Fund Placement

2019

$ 150,000,000

Curiosity Stream

144A Transaction

Private Capital Advisory

2018

$ 688,000,000

Lime Rock Partners Fund VIII, L.P.

E&P and Oilfield Services

Private Fund Placement

2018

$ 2,485,000,000

DIF Infrastructure V

Core & Low Risk Infrastructure

Private Fund Placement

2018

$ 361,000,000

Project Ahab

Energy

Private Capital Advisory

2018

$ 300,000,000

AMERRA Agri PE Fund, LP

Agribusiness

Private Fund Placement

2018

$ 160,000,000

N5 Capital Fund II

Early Stage China Venture Capital

Private Fund Placement

2018

$ 400,000,000

Turning Rock Fund II LP

Special Situations Credit and Preferred Equity

Private Fund Placement

2022

$ 1,125,000,000

Hull Street Energy Partners II

U.S. Middle Market Power

Private Fund Placement

2022

$ 468,000,000

Lyric Capital Partners

Sale of Lyric Fund I

Private Capital Advisory

2021

$ 465,000,000

Loyal Valley Capital Advantage Fund II LP

Middle Market Value Add Private Equity

Private Fund Placement

2019

$ 750,000,000

Five Point Capital Midstream Fund II

Midstream Energy

Private Fund Placement

2018

$ 3,500,000,000

Copenhagen Infrastructure III K/S

Energy Infrastructure

Private Fund Placement

2018

$ 500,000,000

NovaQuest Equity Fund II

Tech-Enabled Pharma Services

Private Fund Placement, First Time Funds

May 2022

$ 505,000,000

Minority Interest in Mid-Sized Managers

Bonaccord Capital Partners I

Private Capital Advisory

Aug 2021

$ 737,000,000

ROC Seniors Housing Medical Properties Fund L.P.

Senior Housing

Private Fund Placement

2015

Project Archetype

Formation of a Fund I and Recapitalization of a Leadong Rubber Upcycling Flooring and Surfacing Company

Private Capital Advisory

2020

$ 350,000,000

Lyric Capital Partners

Restructuring of Music Royalty Platform with Stapled Primary Commitment

Private Capital Advisory, Private Fund Placement

2019

$ 305,000,000

Project Burrito

Follow-on Capital Raise for Existing Portfolio Company to Complete Merger

Private Capital Advisory

2019

$ 243,000,000

Project Alpha

Restructuring of a Chinese Biotech Fund

Private Capital Advisory

2018

$ 140,000,000

Project Prendi

Formation and equity financing of an SPV to acquire an iconic artist's music copyrights

Private Capital Advisory

2021

$ 794,000,000

Active Hedge Fund Client

Event Driven Community Bank Equity

Hedge Fund Placement

Jan 1970

$ 125,000,000

Project Sauce

Restructuring of a US Middle-Market Buyout Fund

Private Capital Advisory

2018

$ 1,100,000,000

Active Hedge Fund Client

Opportunistic / Distressed Debt

Hedge Fund Placement

Jan 1970

$ 3,400,000,000

Active Hedge Fund Client

Long/Short Healthcare Equity

Hedge Fund Placement

Jan 1970

$ 30,000,000

Project Eagle

Direct Co-Investment into Sponsor-Backed Platform

Private Capital Advisory

2018

$ 240,000,000

Active Hedge Fund Client

Discretionary Global Commodities/Agriculture

Hedge Fund Placement

Jan 1970

$ 275,000,000

Crossplane Capital Fund I

Value Oriented Industrial Specialist

First Time Funds, Private Fund Placement

2020

$ 460,000,000

Active Hedge Fund Client

Volatility Trading

Hedge Fund Placement

Jan 1970

$ 1,000,000,000

Active Hedge Fund Client

Multi-Strategy Credit

Hedge Fund Placement

Jan 1970

$ 710,000,000

Brighstar Capital Partners Fund I

Middle Market Buyout

First Time Funds, Private Fund Placement

2018

$ 622,000,000

Active Hedge Fund Client

Financial Services Long/Short Equity

Hedge Fund Placement

Jan 1970

$ 1,300,000,000

Active Hedge Fund Client

European Stressed Credit

Hedge Fund Placement

Jan 1970

$ 24,000,000,000

Active Hedge Fund Client

Mezzanine CLO Tranches

Hedge Fund Placement

Jan 1970

£ 220,000,000

Moorfield Real Estate Fund IV

UK Value-Added Real Estate

Private Capital Advisory, Private Fund Placement

2018

$ 390,000,000

Loyal Valley Capital Advantage Fund

Value Add Strategy Focused Private Equity Fund

First Time Funds

2018

$ 400,000,000

SDC Digital Infrastructure Opportunity Fund I

Digital Infrastructure

Private Fund Placement

2018

$ 310,000,000

Warren Equity Partners Fund II

Infrastructure Maintenance & Repair Services

First Time Funds, Private Fund Placement

2018

$ 500,000,000

Active Hedge Fund Client

Event Driven Real Estate Equity

Hedge Fund Placement

2018

$ 147,000,000

Molpus Woodlands Fund V

North American Timberland

Private Fund Placement

2019

$ 500,000,000

Hull Street Energy Partners Fund I

US Middle Market Power

Private Capital Advisory, Private Fund Placement

2019

$ 358,000,000

8F Aquaculture Fund I LP

Global Aquaculture

Private Fund Placement

2020

$ 600,000,000

Ridgewood Water & Strategic Infrastructure Fund I

Water and Lower Middle Market Infrastructure

Private Fund Placement

2020

$ 750,000,000

SDC Digital Infrastructure Opportunity Fund II

Digital Infrastructure

2020

$ 966,000,000

Five Point Capital Midstream Fund III

Energy Infrastructure

Private Fund Placement

2021

€ 7,000,000,000

Copenhagen Infrastructure IV

European Energy Infrastructure

Private Fund Placement

2021

$ 993,000,000

Fundamental Partners III LP

Municipal Special Situations, Asset-Backed Credit

Private Fund Placement

2017

$ 130,000,000

Lake Whillans Fund I

Commercial Litigation Finance

Private Capital Advisory, First Time Funds, Private Fund Placement

2018

$ 405,000,000

Direct Private Placement

Trinitas Capital Management LLC

Private Capital Advisory

2018

$ 450,000,000

Active Hedge Fund Client

European Structured Credit

2018

$ 671,000,000

KSL Capital Partners Credit Opportunities Fund II, LP

Travel and Leisure Credit Opportunities

Hedge Fund Placement, Private Fund Placement

2018

$ 230,000,000

ARC70 Capital Partners Fund II

Tax Advantaged, ESG Affordable Housing Private Credit

Private Capital Advisory, Private Fund Placement

2020

$ 230,000,000

Arc70 Capital Fund II, LP

Affordable Housing Credit

Private Fund Placement

2019

€ 1,700,000,000

Arrow Credit Opportunities SCSP

European NPLs and Non-Core Bank Credit

Private Fund Placement

2020

$ 204,000,000

IVEST Consumer Partners

Consumer Services/Retail

2019

$ 235,000,000

Quan Venture Fund II

Healthcare Venture Capital

2019

$ 275,000,000

NovaQuest Equity Fund I

Healthcare Mid-Market Buyout

First Time Funds, Private Fund Placement

2019

$ 350,000,000

GLS Capital Fund I

Litigation Finance

Private Capital Advisory, Private Fund Placement

2019

$ 400,000,000

Turning Rock Fund I

Special Situations Credit & Preferred Equity

First Time Funds, Private Fund Placement

2019

$ 745,000,000

EW Healthcare Partners Fund II

Healthcare Growth Equity

2019

$ 602,000,000

Huaxing Growth Capital III, L.P.

China New Economy Fund

Private Fund Placement

2020

$ 670,000,000

Warren Equity Partners Fund III

Infrastructure Maintenance & Repair Services

Private Fund Placement

2021

$ 1,270,000,000

Brighstar Capital Partners Fund II

Business & Industrial Services

First Time Funds, Private Fund Placement

2021

Currency volume represents full credit to each underwriter. All transaction announcements appear as a matter of record only. Stifel collectively refers to Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated and other affiliated broker-dealer subsidiaries of Stifel Financial Corp.

Leadership Team

Eric R. Deyle

Global Co-Head, Managing Director

Stamford

Christopher M. Maduri

Global Co-Head, Managing Director

Chicago

Meet our Team

Adrian Siew

Managing Director

New York

Ali Bentall

Director

London

C. Ulises Flores

Managing Director

Stamford

Charles Korchinski

Director

Stamford

Christopher M. Maduri

Global Co-Head, Managing Director

Chicago

Craig White

Managing Director

Dexter B. Blake, III

Managing Director

New York

Dirk Jonske

Managing Director

New York

DJ Ciaburri

Director

Stamford

Eric R. Deyle

Global Co-Head, Managing Director

Stamford

Gabrielle Kim

Director

New York

Grant Saul

Director

San Francisco

James Townend

Managing Director

London

Jason Dorshow

Director

Stamford

Jonathan Lee

Managing Director

Hong Kong

Joshua M. Barenbaum

Managing Director

Jungsu Kim

Director

Hong Kong

Ophir Shmuel

Managing Director

London

Rob Cotter

Managing Director

Stamford

Ryan Kane

Director

Chicago

Ryan Still

Managing Director

Stamford

Steven D. Eaton

Managing Director

New York

Thomas S. Kreitler

Managing Director

Stamford

Verena Jung

Director

London

W. Michael Crawford

Managing Director

Stamford

News and Insights

Jan 15, 2025

Eaton Partners Acts as Lead Placement Agent for Colbeck Capital Management’s Third Flagship Fund

Jan 13, 2025

Eaton Partners Acts as Asia-Pacific Placement Agent for FTV Capital

Dec 19, 2024

Deregulation, Tariffs, and Potential for Freight Market Recovery in 2025

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Identifying Investment Opportunities That Drive Innovation and Uniting Them With Sophisticated Long-Term Capital Partners

Experience

60+ Professionals

~$14 Billion Raised

85% of Funds Hit Hard Cap

Capabilities

Notable Transactions

Leadership Team

Eric R. Deyle

Christopher M. Maduri

Meet our Team

Adrian Siew

Ali Bentall

C. Ulises Flores

Charles Korchinski

Christopher M. Maduri

Craig White

Dexter B. Blake, III

Dirk Jonske

DJ Ciaburri

Eric R. Deyle

Gabrielle Kim

Grant Saul

James Townend

Jason Dorshow

Jonathan Lee

Joshua M. Barenbaum

Jungsu Kim

Ophir Shmuel

Rob Cotter

Ryan Kane

Ryan Still

Steven D. Eaton

Thomas S. Kreitler

Verena Jung

W. Michael Crawford

News and Insights

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