Strategic Opportunities

Overview

Aquarian Strategic Opportunities (“ASO”) is Aquarian’s go anywhere strategy, which invests across industries and throughout the capital stack.

Since the Firm’s inception, the ASO team has been underwriting and originating assets on behalf of Aquarian Insurance and its affiliates. ASO invests across sectors, with a particular emphasis on capital-efficient solutions that provide downside protection and governance, while maintaining appropriate upside alignment.

ASO is flexible with respect to asset class, industry, sector, geography, and position within the capital structure.

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Asset Classes

Real Estate
Real Assets
Clean Energy Financing
Speciality Lending
GP Stakes & financing solutions
Media & Entertainment Royalties
Asset backed financing platforms

Strategic Opportunities Team

Eric Murzyn
Partner, Aquarian Strategic Opportunities

Eric
Murzyn
Jad Salha
Principal, Aquarian Strategic Opportunities

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Salha
Vice President, Aquarian Strategic Opportunities

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Hahn
Eric Murzyn

Partner, Aquarian Strategic Opportunities

Eric
Murzyn

Eric Murzyn oversees the Strategic Opportunities team at Aquarian Holdings. Before joining Aquarian, Mr. Murzyn served as a Partner and Deputy Investment Officer of Silverman Capital and its associated real estate private debt and equity investment entities, Athos Capital Partners and 54 Madison Capital. Over his career, he has been responsible for the origination, analysis, capital formation, execution and monitoring of various investments and strategies including growth equity and venture capital, private equity and private credit, public markets, real estate and investments with asset managers/emerging managers. Previously, Mr. Murzyn worked as the Director of Capital Markets for a single-family office and its associated real estate investment and operating businesses. He started his career at J.P. Morgan in the Real Estate and Lodging Investment Banking group.

Mr. Murzyn holds a BS from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business where he serves on the Executive Committee for the Private Equity Workshop.

Jad Salha

Principal, Aquarian Strategic Opportunities

Jad
Salha

Jad Salha is a Principal at Aquarian Strategic Opportunities. Mr. Salha joined Aquarian from Parasol Capital, where he was a Principal. He was Founder of OOMA, formerly MyAhmed, a fintech platform; Senior Investment Manager at Pictet Asset Management; Co-Founder and Portfolio Manager of Lelantos Capital; and Partner and Portfolio Manager at Hermitage Capital Management. He began his career at KPMG and PwC.

Mr. Salha earned his MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his BBA from the American University of Beirut.

Vice President, Aquarian Strategic Opportunities

Grace
Hahn

Grace Hahn is a Vice President at Aquarian Holdings. She joined Aquarian from Edison Partners, where she was a Senior Associate. Prior to that, she served as an Associate at Brighton Park Capital and began her career in technology investment banking at Evercore.

Ms. Hahn earned her BS from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.

Case Studies

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Raven Music
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Pace Equity
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Focus Point
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LCN Capital Partners
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Bonaccord Capital Partners
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Raven Music

Raven Music is Raven Capital Management’s music royalties-focused fund. The fund, initially composed of approximately 15,000 songs across 32 catalogs, includes artists such as Megan Trainer, Kenny Chesney and Keith Urban. Aquarian has a strategic investment with Raven Music.

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Aquarian Strategic Opportunities

Pace Equity

PACE Equity is the largest independent provider of funding for commercial property-assessed clean energy (C-PACE) projects. Aquarian’s strategic investment in PACE Equity allows them to significantly scale its capacity. This investment has given Aquarian access to the growing green-building sector.

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Focus Point

FocusPoint Private Capital Group is a broker-dealer and private placement agent. Aquarian has a strategic investment and partnership with FocusPoint to expand access to Aquarian’s investment products.

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LCN Capital Partners

LCN Capital Partners is a real estate focused asset manager specializing in primary market sale-leaseback transactions across North America and Europe. Aquarian has a strategic partnership with LCN for real estate investments in the U.S.

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Bonaccord Capital Partners

Bonaccord Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused on acquiring non-control equity interests in mid-market sponsors across private equity, private credit, and real estate and real assets. Aquarian has a strategic partnership with Bonaccord.

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The contents of the webpages on www.aquarianlp.com are intended for the use of U.S. investors only. By clicking on this link, you acknowledge that you are entering a third-party website and may be entering another jurisdiction that has differing applicable securities laws that must be followed. Aquarian makes no representation that the contents of the site are appropriate for use in all locations, or that the transactions, securities, products, instruments or services discussed at this site are available or appropriate for sale or use in all jurisdictions or countries, or by all investors or counterparties. All persons and entities accessing this site do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with applicable local laws and regulations. Nothing on this site shall be considered the provision of investment advice, or a solicitation to buy or an offer to sell a security to any person in any jurisdiction where such offer, solicitation, purchase or sale would be unlawful under the securities laws of such jurisdiction.

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