Invest in a Portfolio of Direct Minority
Private Equity Opportunities

Get exposure to companies with high-growth potential at discounted entry valuations

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Cresset's Private Equity Opportunities Fund

Investing in family-owned and founder-led businesses sourced through Cresset’s powerful ecosystem.

Cresset Partners Private Equity Opportunities I, LLC (“CPEO”) invests in structured direct minority equity opportunities with family-owned and founder-led businesses.

We identify growing, profitable, middle-market businesses in defensive industries and focus on partnerships in which Cresset can provide strategic guidance, accelerate growth, and build long-term value—with the ultimate goal of successful and lucrative exits.

CPEO is seeded with two health care companies, a restaurant franchisee group company, and has an actionable pipeline of compelling minority investment opportunities.

CPEO exemplifies one of Cresset’s core philosophies:

“Families Investing in Families.”

Our platform distinctly positions us to be an alternative source of capital to traditional private equity funds, attracting founders and partners poised for growth.

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Why Minority-Owned Equity?

  • Exposure to established growth companies at discounted entry valuations
  • Potential downside and minimum return protective provisions
  • Ability to secure governance rights

Why Now?

  • Supply / demand imbalance 
  • Less than 15% of middle market transactions are minority structured, while many business owners are favoring minority recapitalizations to outright sales.
Pitchbook Data – Reported Private Equity majority and minority transactions since 2015.

Why Cresset?

  • Cresset’s Investment Team has ~200 years of combined middle market PE experience
  • Cresset has an expansive network and ecosystem of over 2,000 CEO and founder wealth clients and 1,900 private investors often leads to compelling, proprietary opportunities

Our Competitive Edge

Opportunistic Investment Strategy

Many CEOs and founders are preferring minority recapitalizations over an outright sale. Cresset’s “Families Investing in Families” positioning creates an opportunity to be a partner to founders seeking partial liquidity or growth capital to scale their business prior to a majority exit.

Strategic Risk-Adjusted Returns

CPEO invests through preferred securities, with both full upside participation and senior liquidation preferences. We believe this structure provides the potential for compelling risk-adjusted returns in uncertain market environments. The Fund targets a short investment period, reducing potential j-curve risk.

Cresset’s Large and Growing Ecosystem

Cresset maintains a distinct sourcing advantage with other founder-led and family-owned businesses derived from Cresset’s $50B scaled platform. Our team and platforms are leveraged to add tangible long-term value to our partner businesses.

Strong Alignment of Long-Term Interests

CPEO focuses on minority preferred recapitalizations with existing majority investors that remain fully incentivized and aligned with Cresset’s investors and principal for long-term value creation.

Favorable Portfolio Dynamics

CPEO focuses on modestly leveraged and growing businesses in defensive industries. It has closed on three investments and has a strong pipeline of near-term opportunities, mitigating “blind-pool risk.”

Attractive Investor Value Proposition

CPEO’s strategy is led by team with decades of middle market private equity experience. Investors are able to achieve meaningful discounts to traditional market fees with opportunities for enhanced economics with potential GP participation for scale commitments.

Please note: There is no guarantee that these investment objectives will be met.

Fund Investments

CPEO is seeded with three investments, with several others in various stages of due diligence. Investors have direct co-investment access with many CPEO opportunities.

Project Maple

A physician-led provider of advanced Interventional Pain Management (“IPM”) solutions for acute and chronic pain conditions.

Project Chess

A family-owned and operated dermatology platform focused on medical dermatology—a recession-resilient, essential service.

Invest in Project Chess

Project Cardinal

A scaled QSR franchisee platform with 460+ restaurant locations in 14 states across 4 leading brands in tacos, pizza, burgers, and chicken.

Invest in Project Cardinal

Let's Get Started. Let's Get Started. Let's Get Started. 

Please note: Cresset Partners Equity Opportunities Fund is available to accredited, qualified investors only. 

Risks:

The investments held in the Cresset  Partners Equity Opportunities Fund (“CPEO” or the “Fund”) are highly speculative and involve a great degree of risk and are not suitable for all investors. Full loss of principal is possible. The fund may often engage in the use of leverage and other speculative investment practices that may increase the risk of investment loss. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than original cost. The fund’s high fees and expenses will offset the fund’s total return. There are restrictions on transferring interests in the fund. There is no secondary market for the investor’s interest in the fund and none is expected to develop. An investment should only be considered by investors who can bear illiquidity risk for an indefinite period of time and be able to withstand a total loss of the amount invested. The fund is not required to provide investors with periodic pricing or valuation, and often charges high fees. Private funds are not subject to the same regulatory requirements as registered funds. Investing in private funds may also involve complex tax structures and delays in distributing important tax information. Speak to your Financial Adviser before investing. The fund does not represent a complete investment program. Investors in fund of funds will incur asset-based fees and expenses at the fund level and indirect fees, expenses and asset-based compensation of investment funds in which these funds invest. 

Investments, in private equity funds, are subject to investment, tax, regulatory, market, macro-economic and other risks, including loss of the principal amount invested. Past performance is not indicative of future performance. Statements may be forward looking and are not intended as specific investment advice or guarantees of future performance. Such forward-looking statements necessarily involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual performance and financial results in future periods to differ materially from any projections of future performance or result expressed or implied by such statements. There is no assurance the fund’s investment objectives will be met.

The Fund intends to make long-term, non-control equity investments in privately-held operating companies.  In order to take advantage of attractive opportunities in the market, the Fund may also invest in pooled investment vehicles and separate accounts that utilize a private equity, growth equity or a similar strategy (each, an “Underlying Fund”), debt instruments (including distressed debt), public equities and platform investments which can be an Underlying Fund or a direct portfolio investment.  

General interest rate fluctuations may have a substantial negative impact on the debt investments which can have an adverse impact on returns. During volatile times, floating rate debt instruments tend to rise; however, there may be a significant number of borrowers of such floating rate debt instruments that may be unable or unwilling to repay their loan obligations.

The information contained in these materials is not intended to provide professional, investment, legal or tax advice and should not be relied upon in that regard. The contents of these materials are for general information only and are not provided with regard to your specific investment objectives, financial situation, tax exposure or particular needs. The contents hereof are not a recommendation of, or solicitation for, the subscription, purchase or sale of any security, including the fund(s) and/or investment products mentioned herein. Nothing contained herein should be used as the basis for making any specific investment, business or commercial decision. You should carefully read the final prospectus, offering memorandum, organizational agreement and/or other supplemental and controlling documents before making an investment decision regarding any particular security carefully before investing in any security.

Disclosures:

The information contained herein will be superseded by, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, the PPM, which contains information about the investment objective, terms and conditions of an investment in a fund and also contains tax information and risk disclosures that are important to any investment decision regarding that fund. Foreside Fund Services offers marketing services to Cresset. Foreside is not affiliated with any Cresset affiliates or with any products mentioned herein.

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