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Capital. Strategy. Execution.

Navigating complexity. Creating opportunity.

Blackbear Capital is a principal investor and capital markets adviser in real estate, hospitality and selected infrastructure and operating businesses. We commit our own capital where new structured capital and active ownership change the outcome, and we raise and place capital for owners, developers, corporates and family offices doing the same.

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Advisory

Independent advice across the capital structure.

Debt, equity and special-situations advice across the capital structure, distributed through an active relationship with more than five hundred curated banks, insurers, credit managers, private-equity investors and funds. We bring originate-and-distribute discipline without the constraints of a balance sheet.

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Principal Investment

We invest where new capital changes the outcome.

We commit our own capital independently or alongside third-party equity into special situations where complexity, transition or a constrained capital structure creates opportunity. We take control or significant minority positions with board representation, and we stay involved through operations.

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By the numbers
2016
Blackbear founded
€50bn
Deutsche Bank CRE platform led by the founding partners
500+
Curated capital relationships
$500m+
Portfolio value and realised exits
65+ yrs
Combined founding-partner experience
20+
Jurisdictions transacted
Why the combination matters

One platform, two disciplines

Advisory keeps us in daily contact with the most competitive capital in the market, and it generates off-market opportunities we may not have otherwise seen. Principal ownership means our advice carries the credibility of having taken the same risk, with our own money, in the same kind of asset.

Clients get a bank's structuring discipline without a bank's balance sheet to protect. Co-investors get an adviser's market intelligence alongside an owner's alignment.

Operating partners

Michels & Taylor

Hospitality & F&B

A hotel management, operating and advisory partner within the Blackbear platform.

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Every opportunity is different. We would welcome the chance to discuss your objectives and explore how Blackbear can help.

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