STRATEGIC FOCUSInvestment Criteria
We prioritize control investments across the following industries: insurance, consumer and commercial finance, litigation finance, direct lending, aviation, media and entertainment. Our special opportunities vertical considers investment opportunities across the capital structure.
FORMULA FOR SUCCESSWhat We Look For
- Industries: Insurance, Consumer & Commercial Lending, Litigation Finance, Direct Lending, Aviation, Media & Entertainment
- Growth Stage: We partner with business at all stages of the business life cycle from startup to mature
- Geographies: 777 is a global investor with portfolio companies on 4 different continents
- Investment Size: $5–$500mm
- Investment Period: Our holding company structure allows us to be more patient than traditional private equity firms as we are not constrained by the artificial investment and harvesting periods typically governing investment and divestment
HOW WE INVESTTypes of Transactions
- Corporate divestitures
- Public-to-private
- De novo growth, acquisition roll-ups, and industry consolidations
- Leveraged buyouts (LBO’s) and Management Buyouts (MBO’s)
- Family and entrepreneur owned businesses
COMPLEMENTARY VERTICALSAreas of Focus
Insurance
We consolidate the insurance value chain through direct investments in carriers, specialized distribution, and data, technology and service providers across the life, health, and P&C markets.
Consumer & Commercial Finance
We seek to acquire and build technology-driven companies that underwrite, originate, and service consumer and commercial finance assets. Our focus is on the growing underbanked population where we use our proprietary resources as well as internal and external data to manage credit and risk.
Litigation Finance
We aggregate attractive risk-adjusted returns by acquiring and monetizing financial assets tied to case value. Products in this vertical are designed to benefit stakeholders throughout the value chain, from plaintiffs to attorneys to experts and other essential service providers.
Direct Lending
We originate debt investments in less competitive sectors of the lower middle market while utilizing proprietary resources to achieve attractive risk-adjusted returns. These investments support acquisitions, buyouts, recapitalizations, refinancing and growth financings via unitranche, senior and junior debt financing structures.
Aviation
We are disrupting commercial aviation through strategic investments in operators, software and service providers and the leveraging of in-house engineering capability. Current industry sectors include airlines, aircraft leasing, and travel technology.
Media & Entertainment
We invest in undercapitalized and overlooked opportunities in the increasingly global and consolidating media and entertainment rights space. Current investments include disruptive platforms and successful teams based across the globe.
Special Opportunities
Our special opportunities vertical invests outside of our core industry verticals in unique situations across the capital structure. To capitalize on best available opportunities, this vertical has a flexible mandate with structures that include control equity, high yielding senior secured credit, and minority equity.