Moore Freres & Company

Moore Freres & Company

Moore founded the firm in 2014 after nine years at Viacom, where he deployed $225 million in capital across digital media and corporate strategy — work the firm credits with generating a 26.7x return on invested capital. Before Viacom, Moore cut his teeth at Morgan Stanley's M&A and Restructuring group, then moved through principal roles at TSG Capital Group and Indosuez Capital, a merchant bank. The firm's name nods to the French trading house tradition, though its operations are concentrated at 45 Rockefeller Plaza in New York. The firm pursues established technology, media, and telecommunications companies through buyouts, divestitures, growth equity, recapitalizations, restructurings, and corporate spin-offs. Its website describes a 'unique single point of contact approach' — meaning Moore and partner G. Thomas Reynolds, another Viacom alumnus, sit across the strategic, financial, and operational workstreams themselves rather than delegating to separate deal and portfolio teams. Confirmed adjacencies include Moore's position as Executive Chairman of Vewd Software, a smart-TV operating system provider. The firm's footprint tilts heavily toward North American TMT, with secondary exposure to European deal flow through legacy Viacom relationships and board networks. The firm won ACG New York's Technology Deal of the Year award in 2017, though it has disclosed neither total AUM nor headcount. Its philanthropic footprint runs through Moore's board seats at the New York Hall of Science and St. Margaret's House Housing Development Fund Corporation, plus a vestry role at Trinity Wall Street — a governance architecture that places charitable activity at the principal level rather than inside a foundation vehicle. No new vehicles or disclosed fund closes have surfaced in the past 24 months. The structural distinction is the firm's intentionally lean, operator-led model. Moore and Reynolds run a generalist mandate without a fundraising clock, blending the discretion of a single-family office with the sector specialty of a dedicated TMT buyout shop. Moore's parallel board appointments at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Trinity Wall Street Vestry create a sourcing network that cuts across media, legal, and nonprofit circles — a deal-identification pattern more common among family-backed principals than among institutional GPs.