Our forward-thinking and integrated perspective—covering transit, automotive, cities, freight, infrastructure, delivery, utilities, and others—helps industry leaders and policy makers lead change and navigate an increasingly autonomous, connected, electrified, and shared future.

Leveraging Transit Investments to Create More Livable Cities. Intensive mixed-use development projects around transit stations, commonly known as transit-oriented development, have moved into the mainstream debate over metropolitan growth and development. Such projects are generally considered to have positive benefits in terms of economic development and transit ridership. Our investment approach is based on a disciplined due diligence process that measures risk while identifying the increased value. We purposefully engage only in friendly transactions and work with talented management teams to achieve transformative results. Our Portfolio Operations Group helps to maximize value by improving processes across varied elements of a business’s operations. We deploy a unique partnership model which leverages the industrial and financial expertise of dedicated teams to co-develop innovative strategies. Our strategies are designed to meet future challenges and target a positive economic, social, environmental and governance impact.

We are conversant with the wide variety of financial, tax, regulatory and commercial issues that these transactions present. As a result, we have developed considerable fluency in related disciplines — including tax, compensation and the applicable regulatory regimes — and a deep understanding of the underlying investment products. We represent sponsors and investors in the formation and capitalization of all types of private funds with all major investment strategies. We offer extensive experience in forming funds pursuing a range of traditional debt and equity strategies in both private equity and hedge markets, such as buyout, venture capital, fund of funds, infrastructure, co-investment, real estate, debt and distressed funds, as well as funds targeting particular geographies, multi-strategy funds, and special situations investment funds with unique economic and liquidity arrangements.

Real assets play an important role in diversifying returns and risks. They offer an attractive and durable source of additional performance over the long term, for investors with a long-term investment, particularly in an environment of low interest rates and rising inflation. We help plan vibrant and financially sound developments by assessing the complex strategic, financial, and operational trade-offs for single projects and city-scale developments. We help deliver large, complex real estate projects on time and on budget with leading-edge approaches, including experience-design optimization, collaborative contracting, procurement, standardization and modularization, and productivity management in field activities. We help conduct objective review of projects before financing or contracting, identifying the major value drivers and risks and arming the development team with the tools and insights to deliver.

We deploy advanced analytics and data science to inform strategic and operational decisions, leveraging traditional real estate data and nontraditional data (such as consumer spend, place-based experience reviews, and demographics). Our unique understanding of shifts in tenant needs, familiarity with macro- and micromarket trends, and use of the full power of traditional and nontraditional data allow us to provide careful diligence on critical decisions (for example, acquisitions and dispositions). We maximize returns for large-scale developments by applying insights on changing community and tenant needs, optimizing capital costs, industrializing and accelerating project delivery, minimizing risk, and ensuring that stable foundations are in place for long-term, sustainable revenue streams. We help increase tenant and landlord performance by designing new business models, revolutionizing customer experience, building analytics capabilities to enable data-driven decisions, and supporting procurement optimization.