Lakemore Partners

Andrew Kaufmann serves as Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner, leading the investment committee. He founded the firm in 2016 and brought a background in structured finance and private credit to the role, per the firm's official communications. Day-to-day underwriting and portfolio management are handled by teams in Scottsdale, London, and Abu Dhabi.

The firm writes senior secured loans, mezzanine debt, and preferred equity primarily against transitional real estate — bridge financing, value-add residential, and commercial repositioning — as well as special-situation corporate credits. The common thread is asset-backed or covenant-heavy structuring where traditional bank lenders have pulled back, according to the firm's own descriptions of its strategy.

Lakemore Partners is a specialist credit asset manager, not a single-family office. It runs closed-end private credit funds and managed accounts for institutional investors and family offices. Despite occasionally being miscategorized, the firm has no publicly disclosed connection to a single family's wealth and operates as a third-party manager.

Deal flow comes through a network of regional property sponsors, restructuring advisors, and broker relationships built over more than eight years across the US, UK, and Europe. The firm's Abu Dhabi office adds access to Gulf-based real estate transactions. Lakemore emphasizes off-market and lightly intermediated opportunities rather than broadly auctioned processes.

Lakemore invests across the United States, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe, with growing Middle Eastern exposure through its Abu Dhabi office. That three-region structure — dollar, sterling, and dirham — gives it a multi-currency book that distinguishes it from US-only private credit managers.

Lakemore does not publicly report assets under management. It has stated that cumulative private credit deployed exceeds $4 billion, which implies an active book in the multi-billion-dollar range (Altss estimate). No regulatory filing or public communication provides a precise AUM figure.

The firm operates through separate legal entities in the US, UK, and Abu Dhabi, with the US management company registered as Lakemore Partners Management US LLC in Scottsdale. The London and Abu Dhabi offices allow it to manage sterling- and dirham-denominated mandates under local regulatory frameworks, broadening its investor base beyond dollar-denominated limited partners.