Alternative Capital Investments

Founder and CIO John Guarino is responsible for portfolio construction, structuring, and capital allocation. He leverages long-standing counterparty relationships across structured credit, litigation finance, and private markets to generate deal flow. Co-founder James Berkeley focuses on capital formation, strategic partnerships, and governance infrastructure.

ACI sources deals primarily through founder-led relationship networks rather than broad intermediary auctions. The firm describes its origination model as network-driven, with Guarino and Berkeley using cross-industry connections to surface off-market opportunities before wide intermediation. This is supplemented by specialist consultants in areas such as mass-tort claims acquisition.

ACI operates a structured credit investment platform that can execute investments through both Standard Class capital and a Special Class vehicle. The Special Class is used to scale select opportunities and pursue larger trades by combining with Standard Class participation. Specific fund structures or offering documents are available to qualified investors upon request.

The firm focuses on structured credit and litigation finance, aiming for private-equity-like outcomes with controlled-duration risk. Investments emphasize senior protections, enforceable documentation, and contractual cash flows designed to preserve capital while retaining upside. ACI also has exposure to private markets secondaries and special situations.

ACI's platform is designed to provide institutional and qualified investors with access to its deal flow. The Special Class structure suggests a mechanism for scaling co-investments, but the firm does not publicly disclose a list of co-investors or club-deal participants. Further details are shared with qualified investors during the diligence process.

The firm emphasizes capital protection through senior-secured structures and rigorous underwriting. A high-volume pipeline is filtered so that only a small subset of opportunities advance to funding. A dedicated risk-and-trading function is led by Head Trader David Greenberger, and compliance oversight is managed by CCO H. Karl Dimlich III with support from IQ-EQ.

ACI does not publicly disclose the allocation between litigation finance and other structured credit strategies. However, the firm employs specialist consultants with 10 and 40 years of mass-tort claims acquisition experience, indicating a meaningful commitment to the asset class. Deal flow in litigation finance is sourced through Guarino's and Berkeley's counterparty relationships and consultant networks.