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Silverton Group
Silverton Group was founded in 2006 in Frankfurt and built exclusively around special situations in commercial real estate and real-estate-backed credit.
Silverton Group
Silverton Group was founded in 2006 in Frankfurt and built exclusively around special situations in commercial real estate and real-estate-backed credit. Rather than raising flagship blind-pool funds, the firm structures investments through club deals, separate accounts, and domestic and international fund products, targeting risk profiles from manage-to-core through opportunistic. The firm runs two tightly coupled lines of business. The real-estate arm acquires, repositions and asset-manages commercial properties across Germany with a value-add tilt; recent examples include repositioning a former retail warehouse in Duisburg into a spa concept and reaching full occupancy at a Meerbusch office building leased to Lehmann Natur and Bolton Deutschland. The credit arm acts as an outsourced special-servicing unit for banks and alternative lenders, restructuring non-performing loans (NPLs), Schuldscheindarlehen and bonds. Because Silverton holds payment-institution licenses under ZAG and KrZwMG, it can perform all loan-administration, payment-agent and security-trustee functions in-house — an operational scope rare among non-bank asset managers in Europe. The firm operates from Frankfurt, Munich, Düsseldorf and New York, with a partner office in Athens. Silverton does not disclose assets under management, but it reported cumulative transaction volume of roughly €20 billion as of 30 June 2023. During its 2025 financial year the firm stated it significantly scaled its restructuring and asset-management mandates, signalling continued demand for its integrated servicing model in a stressed German credit environment. The licensing architecture is the structural differentiator. By holding ZAG and KrZwMG licences, Silverton can operate as a payment institution and a credit-servicing entity, allowing it to take over the full administrative and fiduciary apparatus of a distressed loan without relying on third-party servicers. This converts what is typically a fee-based advisory assignment into a recurring, infrastructure-heavy mandate that embeds the firm inside a creditor's operational workflows.
General information
Firm type
Generalist
Year founded
2006
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
Europe
Country
Germany
City
Frankfurt
Corporate office
Neue Mainzer Str. 20, 60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Additional offices
Munich · Düsseldorf · New York · Athens (partner office)
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
What is Silverton Group's core business?
Silverton operates a fully integrated platform for commercial real estate and real-estate-backed credit in Germany. The real-estate side covers acquisition, repositioning and asset management with a value-add bias, while the credit side focuses on acquiring, monitoring and restructuring non-performing loans, Schuldscheindarlehen and bonds. The firm does both for institutional clients through club deals, separate accounts and fund structures.
Does Silverton manage third-party capital or only proprietary capital?
Silverton acts purely as an investment and asset manager for institutional investors — it does not market its own balance-sheet capital. Its vehicles include domestic and international fund products, club deals, and separately managed accounts spanning manage-to-core, value-add and opportunistic strategies.
Why does Silverton hold payment-institution and credit-servicing licences?
The ZAG and KrZwMG licences allow Silverton to function as a payment agent and an outsourced special servicer for distressed loans. This means the firm can execute cash management, handle security-trustee duties and administer all creditor functions in-house when it takes over a non-performing loan mandate — a capability that reduces counterparty dependency and creates a recurring operational revenue stream.
Which asset classes does Silverton explicitly avoid?
The firm's public materials show no activity outside of commercial real estate and real-estate-secured credit. Residential portfolios, corporate lending without a real-estate component, infrastructure equity and operating-business private equity are not part of its disclosed strategy.
How does Silverton source its deals?
Deal flow originates primarily from banks, alternative lenders and institutional investors seeking an active asset-management or special-servicing partner for commercial real-estate exposures and NPL portfolios. The firm's own website emphasizes its role as an independent service provider that takes over the entire transaction chain from due diligence through to exit or restructuring.
Is Silverton Group a family office?
No. Silverton is a third-party asset manager structured as a fully integrated investment and asset-management platform. It serves institutional investors and international market participants and has no disclosed connection to a single family's wealth.
How active is Silverton in the current cycle?
Silverton stated that it significantly scaled its restructuring and asset-management mandates during its 2025 financial year. The acceleration coincides with a repricing of German commercial real estate and a rise in non-performing credits, which together expand the firm's addressable pipeline of value-add and special-servicing opportunities.
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