Falcon Investments

Falcon delivers flexible, bespoke financing combinations of subordinated debt, holdco debt, preferred equity, and common equity. Typical check sizes range from $20 million to $75 million per transaction. Structures are tailored to each situation, whether a management buyout, leveraged buyout, growth capital, acquisition financing, or dividend recapitalization, and the firm can provide additional capital through delayed-draw facilities.

Investment decisions are driven by the four managing partners: founder Sandeep Alva, co-portfolio managers Sven Grasshoff and Matthew Prout, and Chief Investment Officer John Schnabel. The partners average three decades of relevant experience and have worked together for most of that time, forming the core of Falcon's boutique investment team.

Falcon works with both sponsor-backed and non-sponsored businesses. Its website notes that solutions are tailored 'whether or not there is a sponsor attached,' and the firm has supported independent sponsors like Acacia Group as well as established private-equity firms such as Centre Partners across multiple transactions.

The firm highlights six focus sectors on its website: Food & Beverage, Consumer Staples, Information Technology, Education and Training Services, Healthcare, and Business Services/Industrial Technology. Within these, Falcon has specific sub-sector expertise, including managed IT services, government IT, cybersecurity, food manufacturing and packaging, branded and private-label consumer goods, and pharma/biotech.

Falcon is an independent asset manager, not a family office. It provides junior capital to middle-market companies on behalf of its investors. The firm has no disclosed wealth origin or single-family backing; it operates as a specialist credit boutique led by its managing partners.