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About

Independent. Experienced. Aligned.

Blackbear Capital is an independent investment and advisory platform across real estate, hospitality and selected infrastructure and operating businesses. We invest our own capital, and we advise others raising theirs, helping investors, developers, corporates, family offices and operating partners navigate complexity, access capital and create long-term value.

What differentiates Blackbear is not the transactions. It is the perspective we bring to them. Our professionals have decades of experience on both sides of the deal, as investment bankers, lenders, advisers, principal investors, developers, operators and chief executives.

Section 01

Why Blackbear was founded

Real estate is a people business. Transactions matter, capital matters and execution matters, but durable success is built on trust, relationships and judgement. Our objective is not to complete transactions; it is to help clients and partners make better decisions. Sometimes that means raising capital, sometimes restructuring a strategy, sometimes pursuing an opportunity and sometimes avoiding one.

Section 02

Experience built through multiple market cycles

Markets evolve, strategies evolve, capital evolves. Experience does not go out of date. The Blackbear leadership team has operated through expansion, financial crisis, recovery, disruption and growth. We have seen leverage overwhelm good assets, watched markets turn euphoric and then distressed, and worked through periods when capital was abundant and periods when it was scarce.

Successful investing is not about predicting every market movement. It is about making consistently good decisions over time.
Experience built at
Deutsche BankGoldman SachsMerrill LynchCredit SuisseStarwood Capital GroupHiltonCushman & WakefieldCA ImmoDEMIRE

Let's talk.

Tell us what you are trying to achieve and we will tell you honestly whether we can help, and how.

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