Castlelake

About Castlelake

Castlelake is a global alternative investment manager and SEC-registered investment adviser headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Founded in 2005, it specializes in private markets and aims to create value from hard and financial assets through creative capital solutions. Its core mandate is asset-based or asset-backed credit across the risk spectrum for institutional investors. Drawing on deep industry relationships and extensive data, it has built a significant presence in alternatives over more than two decades, concentrating on undercapitalized and inefficient private markets where its expertise can unlock value for a global client base. The strategy is mainly credit-driven, with primary asset classes of specialty finance, aviation, real assets and consumer finance. Investments are made across the capital structure and target asset-rich, cash-flowing opportunities in North America, Europe and Asia. The firm provides flexible capital to sectors such as small and medium-business finance and to residential and commercial mortgage exposure. It often takes a value-add or opportunistic approach to its asset-backed credit mandates and uses its experience to work through complex regulatory environments and market cycles, while its varied geographic reach lets it capture regional opportunities and manage local risks. These exposures are delivered through closed-end investment funds and separately managed accounts built for specific institutional needs. Castlelake has a global team of about 250 employees, including roughly 90 investment professionals. Besides the Minneapolis headquarters, it has eight global offices in financial hubs including London, Dublin, Madrid, Luxembourg, Dubai, Singapore, New York and Dallas. Its investors include pension funds, endowments and sovereign wealth funds looking for specialized private market exposure. Over its history it has completed more than 1,300 transactions. Local market presence combined with a centralized investment philosophy gives it institutional-grade infrastructure and sector expertise across several continents and asset types.

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