Landmark Partners
Landmark Partners, Inc. is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in secondary fund investments in private equity and real estate funds, co-investments, fund-of-funds investments, and growth capital investments. The firm seeks to invest globally. It is a source of liquidity to owners of interests in venture, mezzanine, buyout, and real estate limited partnerships. In private equity secondary investments, the firm typically acquires limited partnership interests and makes direct investments in venture capital, buyout, and mezzanine assets. It has no geographic or industry preferences but it seeks to invest in metals and mining exploration. The firm seeks to take a minority positions in direct private equity investments. In Real Estate secondary investments, it seeks to acquire seasoned real estate funds and partnerships that typically have two to six years of prior operating history. The firm focuses on the commingled real estate funds, limited partnerships, private joint ventures, private REITs, and other private securities. It imposes no limitations on property type. The firm prefers to invest in the United States and also consider non-United States investments on a selective basis. In the growth capital investments, it seeks to invest in the small and middle market companies in the manufacturing and business services sectors. The firm prefers to invest between $1 million and $100 million in the companies domiciled in the United States having enterprise value between $1 million and $50 million. It is typically involved in growth capital transactions, recapitalization, and leveraged buyouts. The firm takes a majority or significant minority position and typically holds an investment for three to five years. In co-investments, it seeks to investment in mature companies in their later stage of development. In fund of funds investments, the firm has two strategies- the next generation strategy, where it prefers first-time, small cap, and spin-out funds and the opportunity strategy, where the firm investments are focused on top-tier fund sponsors. The average age of the funds in which the firm acquires stakes is 8.3 years. Landmark Partners, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is based in Simsbury, Connecticut and has additional offices in Boston, Massachusetts, New York, New York, and London, United Kingdom. As of August 18, 2016, Landmark Partners, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of OM Asset Management plc.