Overview of Advisory Firm and Principal Ownership
Archean Capital Partners II, L.L.C., doing business as Archean Capital Partners
(“Archean”), is a limited liability company organized in Delaware in 2018, to provide
discretionary investment advisory services to one or more private funds. Archean was
formed with a goal of achieving income and capital appreciation primarily by acquiring
interests in privately offered investment funds sponsored or advised by new, emerging or
start-up investment managers.
Archean is a joint venture owned by Eozoic Capital, LLC (‘Eozoic”) and Moelis
Asset Management, L.P. (“Moelis”). Eozoic and Moelis are collectively referred to as the
“JV Partners.” Eozoic was formed as a result of the Transaction previously described in
Item 2, in which Pathstone acquired Veritable and the joint venture interests previously
held by Veritable in Archean were contributed to Eozoic. As a result, Eozoic assumed all
of Veritable’s rights and obligations with respect to Archean under its existing operating
agreements. Eozoic is beneficially owned by substantially the same owners of Veritable
prior to the Transaction. Because Veritable’s existing operations, including its personnel,
were transferred to Pathstone upon completion of the Transaction, Eozoic and Pathstone
entered into a services agreement in which the services previously provided by Veritable
to Archean would continued to be provided by Pathstone on behalf of Eozoic following
the Transaction.
Moelis is the parent company for alternative asset management firms with leading
capabilities in private equity, direct lending, credit funds and structured products. Moelis
has been built on the premise of backing high caliber investment firms with products it
believes can provide attractive risk adjusted returns for investors. Moelis has a track
record of successfully developing early-stage asset management platforms and other
financial services businesses, and deep relationships with hundreds of private market
investment firms across all major market sectors and geographies. The businesses of
Moelis include Freeport Financial Partners LLC, a direct lending platform, Gracie Asset
Management, L.P., a multi-strategy credit manager, Moelis Capital Partners LLC, a
private equity firm focused on middle market companies, Moelis Asset Catalyst Partners
LLC, a private equity firm focused on seeding first time funds, and Steele Creek
Investment Management, LLC, a manager of collateralized loan obligations and other
broadly syndicated loan products. Moelis was also the founding investor of College
Avenue Loans
LLC, a private student loan originator, and is a joint venture partner in
Crossbeam Venture Partners, a venture capital platform. Moelis advisers currently have
aggregate assets under management of over $8.1 billion.
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Services Provided to Advisory Clients
Archean’s current clients are private funds and/or special purpose vehicles owned
by private funds (in either case, “Affiliated Funds”). It is expected that many of the
investors in such Affiliated Funds may also be clients of Pathstone. Employees of
Pathstone or Moelis and/or their affiliates will also invest in the Affiliated Funds.
Affiliated Fund advisory services are provided pursuant to a Fund Advisory
Agreement or Investment Management Agreement or similar investment advisory
agreement (in any case, an “IMA”) tailored to the requests of applicable Affiliated Funds
and their respective General Partner(s) (each a “General Partner” - generally also an
Archean affiliate). Archean does not tailor its advisory services to the individual needs of
any underlying investor.
As provided for in applicable IMA(s), Archean assists and advises Affiliated Fund
General Partner(s) with the management of certain business and investment operations.
As manager or investment adviser of an Affiliated Fund, Archean assists and advises the
General Partner with such matters as: (i) identifying, evaluating and selecting potential
underlying funds in which to invest Affiliated Fund assets and potential underlying
managers to manage all or a portion of Affiliated Fund assets; (ii) allocating Affiliated Fund
assets among various investments; and (iii) monitoring ongoing Affiliated Fund
performance. Archean may also deploy the assets of Affiliated Funds to non-fund
investments and may maintain bank and other accounts for Affiliated Funds. Furthermore,
Archean provides or assists in the provision of other portfolio management, investment
management, administrative and managerial services for Affiliated Funds.
Archean may also assist in certain underlying fund matters (such as with regard to
the vehicles in which Affiliated Funds invest).
Regulatory Assets Under Management
As of the date of this Brochure, the total regulatory assets under management are
$527,831,000 representing the total commitments of three private funds, namely,
Archean Capital Partners I, L.P., Archean Capital Partners (Master) Fund II, L.P., and
Archean Capital Partners (Offshore) Fund II, L.P.
Wrap Fee Programs
Archean does not offer or participate in wrap fee programs.
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