Knox Lane's $437M Take-Private: The PE Playbook for Buying Distressed Public Companies

    Knox Lane's $437M Take-Private: The PE Playbook for Buying Distressed Public Companies

    Knox Lane's $437M Take-Private: The PE Playbook for Buying Distressed Public Companies TL;DR: Knox Lane closed a $437 million all-cash acquisition of Cross Country Healthcare (CCRN) at $13.25 per...

    July 23, 2026

    How to Read an SEC Form D: $226.5M Real Estate Case Study

    How to Read an SEC Form D: $226.5M Real Estate Case Study

    How to Read an SEC Form D: $226.5M Real Estate Case Study How to Read an SEC Form D: American Residential Housing Trust $226.5M Case Study By Jeff Barnes, MBA — July 23, 2026 TL;DR: American...

    July 23, 2026

    How Accredited Investors Access Family Office Co-Investment Deals in 2026

    How Accredited Investors Access Family Office Co-Investment Deals in 2026

    How Accredited Investors Access Family Office Co-Investment Deals in 2026 How Accredited Investors Access Family Office Co-Investment Deals in 2026 By Jeff Barnes, MBA · July 23, 2026 ·...

    July 23, 2026

    SROA Capital Fund X $750M: What Self-Storage Investing Means for Accredited Investors

    SROA Capital Fund X $750M: What Self-Storage Investing Means for Accredited Investors

    SROA Capital launched Fund X this week targeting $750M to acquire under-managed self-storage properties across the U.S., per the firm's announcement . This follows Fund IX's $1.1B+ close, which exceed

    July 22, 2026

    LIHTC Investing Explained: How Accredited Investors Access Affordable Housing Tax Credits

    LIHTC Investing Explained: How Accredited Investors Access Affordable Housing Tax Credits

    The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) is a $30-billion annual federal program that has produced over 3 million affordable housing units since 1986, per HUD data . Institutional investors — banks,

    July 22, 2026

    Greystone LIHTC Fund II $137M: How Accredited Investors Access Affordable Housing Tax Credits

    Greystone LIHTC Fund II $137M: How Accredited Investors Access Affordable Housing Tax Credits

    Greystone Real Estate Capital closed its second low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) fund at $137 million on July 21, 2026, per Affordable Housing Finance , with eight institutional investors and a p

    July 22, 2026

    Self-Storage as an Alternative Investment: What Accredited Investors Should Know in 2026

    Self-Storage as an Alternative Investment: What Accredited Investors Should Know in 2026

    Self-storage has delivered the highest total returns of any major REIT sector over the past 30 years, per Nareit data . But 2026 looks nothing like 2021. Occupancy has corrected from a 94% pandemic pe

    July 22, 2026

    Separately Managed Accounts in Alternative Investments: Why the Ultra-Wealthy Skip Commingled Funds

    Separately Managed Accounts in Alternative Investments: Why the Ultra-Wealthy Skip Commingled Funds

    A separately managed account (SMA) in alternative investments is a bespoke portfolio arrangement where a single LP receives customized terms, direct asset-level transparency, and negotiated fee struct

    July 22, 2026

    Data Centers as Alternative Investments: AI-Driven Demand and Accredited Investor Access in 2026

    Data Centers as Alternative Investments: AI-Driven Demand and Accredited Investor Access in 2026

    AI is creating a data center demand surge that every major private capital allocator is chasing. Blackstone's digital infrastructure portfolio delivered 23.5% annual returns in 2025, per Private Equit

    July 22, 2026

    Private Equity Hidden Costs: What LPs Actually Pay Beyond 2-and-20

    Private Equity Hidden Costs: What LPs Actually Pay Beyond 2-and-20

    The headline "2-and-20" fee structure in private equity understates what LPs actually pay by a significant margin. According to ILPA's Reporting Template v2.0 , which became mandatory for institutiona

    July 22, 2026

    Healthcare Real Estate Investing: MOBs, Senior Housing, and Life Science Labs for Accredited Investors

    Healthcare Real Estate Investing: MOBs, Senior Housing, and Life Science Labs for Accredited Investors

    Healthcare real estate is one of the most fundamentally sound property sectors for long-term investors. Senior housing net operating income grew 15% to 20% in 2024-2025 as occupancy recovered post-COV

    July 22, 2026

    BREIT Class L $70M Raise: Qualified Purchaser vs Accredited Investor Explained

    BREIT Class L $70M Raise: Qualified Purchaser vs Accredited Investor Explained

    Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust filed an 8-K on July 20, 2026 disclosing that it sold 4,805,778 Class L shares for $70 million on July 1, per the SEC filing . The sale was restricted to investors

    July 22, 2026