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The most experienced global fund placement agent's platform is now accessible through Eaton MarketPlace

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

Unequaled Expertise, Exceptional Communication, Outstanding Execution

For over three 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 $100 billion of institutional capital across more than 140 highly differentiated investment funds, 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. 

Introducing Eaton MarketPlace

MarketPlace was developed to provide our institutional investor clients with an efficient and effective platform to review materials on all of our relevant investment opportunities. Investors may customize their individual MarketPlace setting to their own particular information and strategy needs.

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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 $50 million.

75+ Professionals

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

~$23 Billion Raised

In the last 3 years, we have secured over 665 commitments across 50 funds. This is an unrivaled industry track record.

85% of Funds Hit Hard Cap

In 2022, 9 of 11 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 Funds

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 Funds

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.

Offices

Stamford

677 Washington Boulevard

9th Floor

Stamford, Connecticut 06901

Tel: +1 (203) 831 2970

New York

 787 Seventh Avenue 

11th Floor

New York, New York 10019

Tel: +1 (917) 398 0940

Chicago

1 North Wacker Drive

34th Floor

Chicago, Illinois 60606

Tel: +1 (312) 340 0609

Hong Kong

Room 1501

New World Tower One

16-18 Queen’s Road Central

Hong Kong, SAR 

Tel: +852 3792 0151 

Houston

1000 Louisiana Street 

Suite 5250 

Houston, Texas 77002

Tel: +1 (713) 589 3383

London

150 Cheapside

Fourth Floor

London EC2V 6ET

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7292 2100

San Francisco

1 Montgomery Street

Floor 37

San Francisco, California 94104

Tel: +1 (415) 364 7112 

Eaton Partners is a division of Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, Member SIPC and NYSE. Eaton Partners subsidiary Eaton Partners (U.K.) LLP is authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Eaton Partners subsidiary Stifel Hong Kong Limited, doing business as Eaton Partners Hong Kong, is approved as a Type 1-licensed company under the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in Hong Kong. Eaton Partners and the Eaton Partners logo are trademarks of Eaton Partners, LLC, a limited liability company. Eaton Partners and the Eaton Partners logo are trademarks of Eaton Partners, LLC, a limited liability company ® Eaton Partners, LLC, 2021.

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