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By Alastair Marsh - May 2, 2018, from Bloomberg Markets

The nameless group confers “a hunting license” that lets an investor sit at the “big boy table and make high-level trades not available to stupid amateurs.”

In an industry where power and influence are measured in dollars and cents, this may be the most exclusive club in finance: The price of admission is at least $25 million.

It has no name and no board of directors but has a roster drawn from the world’s wealthiest and most successful traders. Members essentially become their own one-person firms, even firms within firms, by gaining a seal of approval to deal in the complex products typically reserved for institutions that manage hundreds of billions of dollars. And all without drawing the attention of Wall Street’s everyday millionaires.

Their ranks are getting more selective. While no one keeps count, people in the industry guesstimate that the total peaked at no more than 3,000 a decade ago and has shrunk considerably since the financial crisis. Months of interviews have yielded the identities of just 12 individuals who held the prize: an ISDA master agreement.

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Private Placement Trading in the U.S.

Although these placements are subject to the Securities Act of 1933, the securities offered do not have to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission if the issuance of the securities conforms to an exemption from registrations as set forth in the Securities Act of 1933 and the associated SEC rules put into effect.

Most private placements are offered under the Rules known as Regulation D. Different rules under Regulation D provide stipulations for offering a Private Placement, such as required financial criteria for investors or solicitation allowances.[3] Private placements may typically consist of offers of common stock or preferred stock or other forms of membership interests, warrants or promissory notes (including convertible promissory notes), bonds, and purchasers are often institutional investors such as banks, insurance companies or pension funds.

Common exemptions from the Securities Act of 1933 allow an unlimited number of accredited investors to purchase securities in an offering. Generally, accredited investors are those with a net worth in excess of $1 million or annual income exceeding $200,000 or $300,000 combined with a spouse.

Under these exemptions, no more than 35 non-accredited investors may participate in a private placement. In most cases, all investors must have sufficient financial knowledge and experience to be capable of evaluating the risks and merits of investing in a company.

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We don’t often see managers buying placement agents, but in this instance the rationale is clear.

In an industry in which growth is currently the norm, Investcorp stands out as pursuing it faster than most.

The Bahrain-listed alternatives investment firm has been on an acquisition spree in the last year. It forayed into Asia with a $250 million anchor investment in a Chinese manager’s tech fund and the acquisition of Mumbai-based IDFC Alternatives’ private equity and real estate units. The firm has also picked up a 40 percent strategic stake in a Swiss private bank and launched Strategic Capital Group, a unit that will acquire minority stakes in mid-sized alternative asset managers.

This activity is all designed to fuel an ambitious growth plan to grow AUM to $50 billion in the medium-term from $22.5 billion as of end-December 2018. It also puts into perspective the firm’s acquisition of New York-based placement firm Mercury Capital Advisors.

Investcorp has acquired 100 percent of Mercury. Four representatives from Investcorp will join Mercury’s board of directors post-acquisition, with Mercury’s management team continuing to run the business.

It’s not totally unheard of for a GP to buy a placement agent, but it is rare. Blackstone used to own Park Hill Group before spinning off the business in September 2015 to combine with PJT Partners. We are more used to seeing investment banks pick up placement agents, such as Houlihan Lokey’s acquisition of BearTooth Advisors last year or Stifel Financial and Eaton Partners in 2015.

For the Bahrain-listed firm, it’s a strategic play. Investcorp is at a point at which raising institutional capital and reaching new investors are top priorities. The firm has historically raised the bulk of its capital from wealthy families and individuals in the Middle East. This year it has already sealed two big secondaries transactions that have ushered Coller Capital and Harbourvest into its investor base and raised fresh capital for both its buyout and tech sector programmes. The firm raised $548 million in the last six months of 2018, according to its most recent results, more than double what it raised in the same period the year before.

The acquisition of Mercury brings more than 50 fundraisers across 14 offices into a firm with global growth plans. Last year, Mercury facilitated over $6.5 billion in aggregate capital commitments in North America, Asia and Europe across private equity, private credit, real estate, secondaries and direct transactions. Mercury also has iFunds, a fintech platform offering family offices and wealth advisors access to alternatives investments.

Mercury will continue to operate as an independent placement agent, the two firms said this week, but it would defy logic to think its fundraisers won’t be unleashed on Investcorp’s own products.

In this context, the deal makes perfect sense.

The offshore financial structure information can be found here: Offshore Capital Structure

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