Mercury Expands Fundraising Capabilities with Appointment of Jeff Davis as Partner, Origination & Project Management
July 09 2024 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Mercury Capital Advisors, a leading global placement and
advisory firm and a subsidiary of Investcorp, today announced that
Jeff Davis has joined the Firm as a Partner based in New York. As a
senior member of the Firm, Mr. Davis will lead North American
private equity and private credit origination, client relationships
and project management.
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Jeff Davis, Partner, Origination &
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Mr. Davis brings to Mercury over 25 years of financial services
experience, of which 20 years have been spent in placement for
private funds, collaborating with managers across private equity,
private credit, real estate and real assets. He joins from
FirstPoint Equity Capital where he was responsible for private
equity and private credit origination and distribution. Mr. Davis
previously held several leadership roles at Eaton Partners,
including Head of Project Management and Co-Head of Private Credit,
a business line he helped launch and successfully grow over a
ten-year span. Complementing his placement and advisory experience,
he has also had roles as an LP at Capital Dynamics and as a GP at
GE Equity, a unit of GE Capital. He began his finance career in
investment management and real estate investment banking at Bankers
Trust and Deutsche Bank.
John Franklin, Managing Partner commented, “We look forward to
leveraging Jeff’s expertise to build upon our fundraising and
advisory capabilities. He brings to Mercury deep industry
knowledge, a global network of relationships, and significant
experience launching strategies across major asset classes that
will further strengthen the bespoke advice and service our clients
desire.”
Mercury continues to provide a comprehensive one-stop solution
for its GP clients across fund placement, secondary advisory, fund
co-investments and direct placement. It has added several new
clients in the last year, including Metric Capital Partners,
Kennedy Wilson, and Pomona, while continuing to provide services to
its long-standing clients such as Gaw Capital Partners, Coller
Capital, and Orchestra Private Equity, among others.
About Mercury Capital Partners Mercury Capital Advisors
is a leading global private fund and investment advisory firm.
Founded in 2009 as a spinoff from the Merrill Lynch Private Funds
Group, the firm assists general partners and limited partners in
fundraising and secondary advisory, co-investment and direct deal
placement. The firm specializes in alternative assets including
private equity, real estate, infrastructure, credit, venture
capital, secondaries and special situations investments. Mercury
has advised on over 100 fundraisings and closed over $100 billion
in fund commitments since its inception in 2009.
With distribution coverage in North America, Europe, the Gulf
and Asia, including Japan, the firm maintains strong relationships
with a broad range of the world’s pre-eminent institutional
investors, including sovereign wealth funds, corporate and public
pension plans, insurance companies, endowments, family offices,
wealth platforms, foundations, secondary funds, funds of funds and
consultants.
Mercury Capital Advisors is a 100% owned subsidiary of
Investcorp, a global investment manager specializing in alternative
investments across four asset classes: Private Equity (Mid-Market
Buyouts, Growth Investments, and GP Staking), Real Assets
(Infrastructure and Real Estate), Credit (CLOs, Broadly Syndicated
Loans & Structured Credit, and Middle-Market Direct Lending),
and Liquid Strategies (Absolute Return Investments and Insurance
Asset Management). Today, Investcorp manages $52 billion in assets,
including assets managed by third party managers. Investcorp has 14
offices in the US, Europe, GCC and Asia, including, India, China,
Japan and Singapore, and employs approximately 500 people from 50
nationalities globally.
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