Gramercy Funds Management

Gramercy Funds Management
Large Advisory Firm[1]
Industry Global Investment Management[2]
Founded 1998 [2]
Headquarters 20 Dayton Avenue, Greenwich, CT 06830
Area served
 Worldwide [2]
Key people
 Robert Koenigsberger
Scott Seaman
Robert L. "Nob" Rauch[3]
AUM US $4.1 Billion (as of March 2014)[4]
Number of employees
 Approximately 60 (2013)[1]
Website http://www.gramercy.com

Gramercy Funds Management is an investment manager dedicated to global emerging markets. Gramercy manages alternative, long-only and UCITS strategies across a variety of asset classes, including USD and local currency sovereign debt, corporate debt, high yield corporate debt, distressed debt, equity, private equity and special situations.[2][5]

The firm is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut with additional offices in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mexico City and Silicon Valley, and an on-the-ground presence in Lima and Buenos Aires.[6]

Gramercy was founded in 1998 and is registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under the Investment Advisors Act of 1940.[1]

History

Gramercy was founded in 1998 by Robert Koenigsberger, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, who has over 27 years of experience investing in emerging markets. Koenigsberger founded Gramercy with a vision for the firm to become a global, institutional investment management firm focused on emerging markets.[7][8] The firm currently manages several billion in assets with a team of 60-plus professionals.[9]

Gramercy Funds

Alternative Investment Funds

Long-only Debt Funds

Long-only Equity Funds

Management Bios

Robert S. Koenigsberger is founder, chief investment officer and the managing partner of Gramercy. Koenigsberger has 27 years of investment experience dedicated to emerging markets with a specialization in fixed income securities. Prior to founding Gramercy, Koenigsberger was a senior vice president at Lehman Brothers from 1995 to 1998, where he managed the bank’s sovereign debt restructuring group. Prior to that, he was a vice president at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated for three years where he traded performing and distressed emerging markets debt securities in New York, London and Hong Kong. From 1987 to 1991, he held the position of vice president at CR-P Associates, a financial advisory firm with offices in Central and South America that led sovereign debt restructurings, debt buy-backs and debt-equity swap transactions in Latin America.[8][16]

Scott Seaman is Partner and Chief Operating Officer. He joined the firm in 2002. He has 30 years’ experience in business management spanning emerging markets and alternative investments. Prior to joining the firm, Seaman spent 16 years at J.P. Morgan & Co. where he held roles as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer for J.P. Morgan Fleming Asset Management’s Hedge Funds Group and Real Estate Investment Group; Manager of the Emerging Markets Strategic Planning Group at J.P. Morgan Securities Inc; head of Emerging Markets Business Analysis and Development at J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc; and a Vice President in the J.P. Morgan & Co. Audit Group.[3][17]

Robert Rauch is Partner and Emerging Markets Distressed Portfolio Manager. He has 34 years investment experience. Rauch oversees investment activities and the corporate investment and restructuring group of Gramercy, and is a portfolio manager for Gramercy's distressed funds. He has been or is currently involved as a leading creditor or advisor in the restructuring of numerous companies in Asia and Latin America including Accel, Alestra, Asia Pulp and Paper, Berlian Laju Tanker, BTA Bank Kazakhstan, Dina, Durango, Essar Steel, Industrias Unidas, Iusacell, Mechala, Medefin, New World Resources,San Luis, Satmex, SIDEK, Synkro, Transtel, and Tristan Oil..[18] Prior to joining Gramercy in January 2001, Mr. Rauch worked with a number of other financial institutions, including The Weston Group, Lehman Brothers, CSFB, First Interstate Bancorp, and Swiss Bank Corporation. He is currently on the board of Pendulum, S. de R.L. de CV, a non-performing loan servicing company in Mexico and Credivalores, a Colombian consumer finance company.[3][19]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Gramercy Funds Management LLC". Whale Wisdom. May 2, 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Gramercy Adds to Latin America Private Equity Investment Team". peHUB. February 14, 2013.
  3. 1 2 3 "Gramercy Partners". Gramercy.com. Retrieved May 20, 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Exclusive: Gramercy launches EM credit long/short strategy". HFMWeek. April 2014.
  5. ↑ "Gramercy Funds Management LLC". NASDAQ. March 31, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Gramercy". Gramercy.com. Retrieved May 20, 2014.
  7. ↑ "Gramercy Funds Management". Crunchbase. Retrieved May 20, 2014.
  8. 1 2 "Economics Roundtable - Robert S. Koenigsberger". Gramercy.com. Retrieved April 18, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Gramercy Investment Fund plc - Gramercy Corporate Emerging Market Debt Fund". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
  10. ↑ Daniel Bases (September 9, 2013). "Gramercy closes distressed emerging debt fund to new investment". Reuters.
  11. 1 2 "FORM ADV". EDGAR. October 2012.
  12. ↑ "Gramercy launches UCITS-compliant EM debt funds". HedgeFund Intelligence. September 23, 2013.
  13. ↑ "Long-Only Debt". Gramercy.com. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
  14. ↑ Erin E. Arvedlund (April 23, 2011). "The Debt Doctor Is In". Barron's Online.
  15. ↑ "Long-Only Equity". Gramercy.com. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
  16. ↑ Ellen Kelleher (January 13, 2013). "Hedge fund gentleman wages Argentine war". Financial Times.
  17. ↑ "Scott G. Seaman Profile". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved May 19, 2014.
  18. ↑ "Robert L. Rauch Bio".
  19. ↑ "Robert L. Rauch Profile". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved May 19, 2014.

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