BACKGROUND
Cygnus Capital, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is an integrated alternative asset management company. Since 2010, Cygnus has focused on opportunistic, special situation, and distressed investing.
Cygnus targets long term, absolute returns for investors by applying a differentiated approach. By placing an emphasis on rigorous fundamental research throughout acquisition, workout, and disposition, in markets often characterized by inefficiency, we are able to target robust, absolute returns.
INVESTMENT APPROACH
Cygnus Capital is an alternative asset manager focused on investing in special situation, and opportunistic real estate debt instruments. We operate with the belief that the real estate debt market is fragmented, inefficient, and persistent across economic cycles. We take advantage of these market situations by stepping into the dysfunctional void created when borrowers and lenders cannot or will not work together. By completing workouts of these complex transactions, usually by repositioning the underlying asset or restructuring the debt, we are able to unlock value and retrieve superior, risk-adjusted returns. Our differentiated investment approach is characterized by the specialized analytical, legal, structuring, and workout expertise our team offers. With prior opportunistic real estate investment experience across equity, debt, property type, deal type, and geography, combined with our growing investment platform architecture, we are able to capitalize on attractive value-oriented opportunities.
5 KEY POINTS
Our approach centers around five key points:
STRATEGY
Implementing flexible investment strategies to opportunistically identify, underwrite, and unlock value.
COMPLEXITY
Sourcing, underwriting, pricing, and closing complex transactions all cash.
CASH ASSETS
Acquiring assets all cash to reduce risk, accelerate closing at better prices, and provide a higher certainty of execution to sellers and their brokers to lead to future deal flow opportunities.
TARGETED
Targeting smaller transactions, below the radar of institutional buyers, with less hands-on operational and repositioning requirements to facilitate quicker workouts, reduced costs, and higher targeted risk-adjusted returns.
COMMITTED
Creating alignment with investors through increased transparency, no transaction fees, and meaningful commitment of internal capital.