Civitas Capital Management, LLC is a Texas limited liability company formed on December 8,
2008. The principal owners of our firm are Ryan Holdings Texas, LLC, a Texas limited liability
company formed on April 10, 2008, and certain estate-planning vehicles associated with Daniel J.
Healy, the Chief Executive Officer of our firm. This Brochure also describes the business practices
of management companies affiliated with our firm which operate as a single advisory business
together with Civitas Capital Management, LLC. References to “Civitas,” “we,” “our,” and “our
firm” refer to Civitas Capital Management, LLC and its affiliates.
Our firm provides investment portfolio management services exclusively with respect to real estate
and real estate-related debt and equity investments (“Real Estate Assets”) and expect to provide such
services primarily with respect to Real Estate Assets in the future. We provide investment portfolio
management services to various investment vehicles (including some private funds) that make
investments in Real Estate Assets (“Real Estate Funds”), including in multifamily rental apartment
properties, hotels and offices. These Real Estate Funds are typically structured as limited
partnerships. An affiliate of Civitas serves as the general partner of each Real Estate Fund and Civitas
generally serves as the investment adviser to each Real Estate Fund. These Real Estate Funds may
also be structured as limited liability companies or other entities, with an affiliate of Civitas serving
as the manager, managing member or other management role analogous to a general partner, manager
or managing member.
Some of our Real Estate Funds include those whose investment strategies are structured to meet the
requirements of the U.S. EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program (the “EB-5 Program”), through which
qualified foreign investors can receive permanent residency in the United States in return for
investing a minimum required amount into a United States business that creates new jobs (“EB-5
Funds”). Our firm is also the manager of eight “Regional Centers” (under the EB-5 Program)
throughout the United States. Sometimes our Real Estate Funds that are not EB-5 Funds invest
together with one or more EB-5 Funds in the same underlying Real Estate Assets, or may participate
in differing parts of a particular Real Estate Asset’s capital structure.
For any Real Estate Fund, our advisory services are tailored to meet the Real Estate Fund’s investment
strategy as described in its offering documents. Our services include the evaluation and selection of
investments and the structuring and monitoring of those investments. Civitas’ investment decisions
and advice with respect to its Real Estate Funds are in accordance with the investment objectives and
restrictions set forth in the limited partnership agreement or other applicable governing documents of
each Real Estate Fund and, where applicable, any side letters that such Real Estate Fund or its general
partner (or manager, managing member or similar governing body) may enter into with one or more
investors in such fund. Real Estate Assets in which Civitas’ Real Estate Funds invest may take the
form of or include, without limitation:
1. the acquisition of direct interests in real property;
2. the formation of joint ventures or other co-investment arrangements with third parties for
investments in Real Estate Assets (including the acquisition of debt and equity interests in
joint ventures);
3.
the acquisition of securities in entities that own or invest in one or more Real Estate Assets;
and
4. the issuance or acquisition of mezzanine or “bridge” financing, mortgage loans and other real
estate-backed indebtedness, or participation in, or ownership of, securities backed by such
indebtedness.
Historically, our Real Estate Funds have invested in single (or a small group of related) Real Estate
Assets consisting of either direct or indirect investments in real property (an “Equity Fund”) or direct
or indirect investments in one of the loans or other types of indebtedness described above ultimately
secured by an interest in Real Estate Assets (a “Loan Fund”). However, certain of our Real Estate
Funds are permitted to make one or more investments of both types (“Diversified Funds”)
For EB-5 Funds, we tailor our advisory services to include the satisfaction of job creation requirements
imposed by the EB-5 Program, among other potential objectives set forth in the applicable governing
documents. Our EB-5 Funds are typically initially structured as Loan Funds, however, after certain
requirements of the EB-5 Program are met, at the direction of the investors in these EB-5 Funds, these
EB-5 Funds may be restructured to become Equity Funds or Diversified Funds (and/or continue as
Loan Funds). To meet our EB-5 Funds’ investment needs, we provide the following:
1. Sourcing EB-5 Program-compatible investments. Our firm screens and conducts financial
analysis of potential investment projects to ensure that a project would meet the EB-5
Program requirements.
2. Ongoing Project Monitoring. Our firm employees oversee investments on a continuing basis
to ensure that they remain within our funds’ investment objectives.
3. Performance Reporting. We periodically provide updates to our fund investors about the
status of investment projects.
Civitas enters into side letter agreements or other similar agreements with certain investors in its Real
Estate Funds, typically only with institutional investors, which agreements provide such investors
with rights and terms (including, without limitation, with respect to management fees, carried interest,
co-investment rights, access to information/reporting obligations, the ability to be charged fees
associated with the engagement of placement agents, “most favored nation” provisions and rights or
terms requested or necessary in light of particular investment, legal, regulatory, or public policy
characteristics of an investor) that are different or in addition to the general terms of the governing
documents of the applicable fund. Civitas is not obligated to offer such additional and/or different
rights or terms to all investors in its Real Estate Funds.
We do not participate in wrap fee programs.
As of December 31, 2023, we manage approximately $437,815,679 of discretionary regulatory assets
under management. Our Real Estate Funds are not currently clients, as such term is defined in the
Investment Advisers Act of 1940, though we expect to have Real Estate Fund clients in the near
future. Out of an abundance of caution, we have included all Real Estate Funds relying on one or
more exemptions from the registration requirements of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended (the “Investment Company Act”), in the calculation of discretionary assets under
management. As of December 31, 2023, we manage approximately $616,787,479 of total
discretionary assets inclusive of our Real Estate Funds.