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Davis Square Capital, LLC is a veteran co-founded placement agent, providing global capital raising & advisory services to select private investment managers.
OUR FOCUS
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Primary Capital Raising
DSC has the experience, expertise, and investor network to work on an exclusive basis, or in-conjunction with a firms internal or external capital raising efforts.
We have the flexibility to enhance a GPs fundraising efforts by carving out a specific, targeted, group of investors by type and/or region.
We take a disciplined approach to selecting a limited number of institutional-quality mandates, partnering with differentiated fund managers across buyout, growth equity, venture capital, & real estate.
DSC specializes working with spin-out teams, emerging managers, & mature fund managers by offering global capital raising & advisory services for Funds $800M and below.
We bring decades of institutional experience with the energy & passion of a start-up, placing the highest importance on integrity, brand stewardship, and alignment for our clients.
FUND MANAGERS
OUR FOCUS
STRATEGIES
SERVICES
BESPOKE ENGAGEMENTS
In addition to capital raising, DSC provides its partners advisory services including marketing insights, project management, & off-cycle investor engagement.
SECONDARIES
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Secondaries
OUR FOCUS
CO-INVESTMENTS
ASSET TYPES
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TRANSACTION SIZE
Given its vast network of secondary funds, family offices and acquirers of secondaries, DSC takes a targeted approach to pricing and transacting in secondary interests. Limited Partnership interests, GP restructurings, direct company interests as well as offering pre-IPO liquidity solutions for private company shareholders across North America, Europe, and Asia.
Buyout, venture, growth capital, real estate, energy, and credit.
From $250k to ≈$50M OUR FOCUS
Co-Investments
TRANSACTION CRITERIA
From $20M to $250M in equity, control-oriented transactions & minority/growth equity investments.
Software, Business Services, Healthcare, IT Services, Consumer, Manufacturing, Industrials, Shipping & Logistics.
SECTORS
GP CO-INVESTMENTS
We work with General Partners to efficiently source co-investment capital to broaden & diversify their Limited Partner network.
Co-Investments offer both Limited Partners & Fund Managers the ability to build a long-term relationship based on an individual transaction.
INDEPENDENT SPONSORS
We work with Independent Sponsors to efficiently raise both equity & debt to finance individual transactions.
DSC is familiar & well-suited to work within the limited time frames of these transactions, offering Independent Sponsors effective capital formation services. WHO WE ARE
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Keith Whitney
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Keith Whitney is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Davis Square Capital, LLC. Keith previously led the sales and distribution efforts for QNB Financial Services, a start-up investment bank in the Middle East offering regional and global products, capital markets, advisory and discretionary portfolio mandates in Doha, Qatar. He spent 12 years as a senior member of Fidelity Investments Institutional Services Sales and Distribution teams. Keith received his BA in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, an MBA from Boston University and studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. Keith is a Veteran of the US Army and served in the 82nd Airborne Division. He possesses FINRA Series 7 and 63.
Andrew Sillari
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Andrew is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Davis Square Capital, LLC. Prior to co-founding DSC, Andrew was a banking professional in the Private Client Group divisions of both Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. Andrew received his BA in Economics from Wheaton College (MA) and his MBA from the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University, where he graduated with Beta Gamma Sigma honors. He also studied Finance at the University of London in London, England. He possesses FINRA Series 7 and 63.
Leadership
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Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Andrew Sillari
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
