Strategies
Even though Real Estate and Private Equity constitute close to 75% of our investments, we do focus on being a minority financier of capital-raising services
Mergers and Acquisitions
Dev provides M&A advice, including sell-side advice, raid and activism defenses, cross-border M&A, special committee assignments and complicated merger transactions. Dev provides advice on a full range of transactions, including mergers, sales, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, raid defenses, spin-offs, divestitures and other restructurings.
Hedge Fund
Dev LLC Hedge Fund’s overall investment philosophy is to protect and grow investors’ assets through both commingled and custom-tailored investment strategies designed to deliver compelling risk-adjusted returns and mitigate risk. Approximately half of the assets we manage are invested in customized vehicles created to meet client-specific objectives.
Corporate Finance
Dev LLC Corporate Derivatives team works with corporations to develop customized risk management strategies. Our Corporate Finance team helps businesses structure complex transactions while our Leveraged Finance Capital Markets team originates, structures and executes bank loans and high-yield bond financings for corporate clients and financial sponsors.
Wealth Management
We work closely with high-net-worth individuals, families and select foundations and endowments to develop wealth and investment management strategies. We then identify investment opportunities to help them reach their objectives. We complement these services with robust execution capabilities and attentive client service.
Growth Markets
Dev helps investors find new opportunities in global emerging economies in technology and synthetics.
Credit
Dev Credit solutions are often not available elsewhere in the credit markets, and draw upon a range of non-investment grade disciplines including leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, distressed debt, mezzanine lending and rescue financing.
Investment Research
Our Investment Research division provides original, fundamental insights and analysis for clients in the equity, real-estate, fixed income, and commodities markets covering areas such as economics, portfolio strategy, derivatives and equity around the world. Our research reports help investors better understand the issues and trends.
Middle Market Financing
Dev-MMF is a global, multi-asset class business, specializing in principal investing and lending in all levels of capital structures on a risk-adjusted return basis. MMF is the primary center for Dev’s middle-market financing and investing activity. The group lends and invests Dev’s capital directly to mid-sized IT outsourcing firms.
