NEW YORK--(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.
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.
