Bringing together the highest quality partners with the skills and effective working relationships needed to succeed on each individual investment

  • Ceres' Principals have substantial histories of sucessful institutional real estate investing, with over 100 years of collective experience
  • Substantial expertise and experience across all asset classes, with $10 billion of underlying asset value
  • Deep relationships throughout the real estate industry
  • Experience growing operating companies and joint ventures with significant follow-on investment activity

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Proactively sourcing and structuring investments with the potential to exceed our return requirements, and with clearly identified and manageable risks

  • Strategic process for determining our investment focus and portfolio construction
  • Broad range of investment capabilities spanning all asset classes
  • Rigorous due diligence process that goes beyond identifying risks to provide a complete business plan for effectively managing the real estate asset and its operations after the closing
  • Unique combination of expertise in real estate, operations, finance, law, development, tax, bankruptcy and turnarounds to execute unusually complicated investments
  • Overriding focus on safety and risk management

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Continuously adding value to our investments while ensuring proper business plan execution

  • Ability to add value to real estate assets and their operations
  • Consistent focus on executing the business plan and implementing value-added initiatives
  • Strong operating skills to ensure business plan execution, with deep in-house expertise across property types, markets and investment cycles
  • Expertise throughout the real estate lifecycle, from land development to the renovation, re-tenanting and improved management of distressed assets
  • Decades of front line experience in restructuring, bankruptcies and foreclosures, as well as solving complex distressed situations
  • Closely monitor our investments and the markets they are in to avoid evolving risks
  • Proactively seek, structure and execute exit opportunities

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Comprehensive safety, risk management, and infrastructure focus

  • Experienced, disciplined team focused on reducing risk as the first step in any investment decision
  • Expert knowledge of legal, workout and bankruptcy issues strengthened by substantial front-line experience
  • Madison Dearborn Partners provides our initial legal, accounting and IT infrastructure
  • Our Chief Financial Officer was the Chief Financial Officer for over $14 billion in Madison Dearborn Partners' funds
  • Auditing and tax services provided by "Big Four" firms
  • Our legal counsel include Mayer Brown LLP, and Pircher, Nichols & Meeks
  • General endorsement of the Private Equity Principles of the Institutional Limited Partners Association(ILPA)

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