ADVISORY BUSINESS
Founded in 1998 and headquartered in New York, Fortress Investment Group LLC and its
affiliates (collectively “Fortress” or the “Firm”) is a global asset manager that raises, invests
in and/or manages private equity funds, hedge funds (together with private equity funds, each
or collectively, a “Private Fund”), and publicly traded permanent capital vehicles. Fortress
also provides alternative investment management services to institutional managed accounts.
On December 27, 2017, SoftBank Group Corp. (TOKYO: 9984) (“SoftBank”) acquired
Fortress. Fortress operates within SoftBank as an independent business. See Item 2 (Material
Changes) for a description of Fortress and Mubadala Capital’s agreement to acquire
SoftBank’s interest in Fortress.
The descriptions of Fortress’s funds in this brochure, including the type of investments
made and strategies used, fees and expenses charged, risk factors and conflicts of
interests that may arise in Fortress’s management of such funds and investments are
qualified in their entirety by reference to each of the Clients’ (as defined below)
agreements with Fortress as well as in formal offering materials (e.g., the Client’s
offering memorandum, memorandum and articles of association, limited partnership
agreement, as the case may be, and subscription document) provided to investors in the
Private Funds or to those with separately managed accounts (“Managed Accounts”), as
applicable (collectively referred to herein as the “Offering Documents”) and, in the case
of publicly traded permanent capital vehicles, by reference to public disclosures made
in accordance with public company reporting requirements.
Fortress’s Registered Advisors
Fortress conducts its investment management business through its subsidiary, FIG LLC (801-
62982), and through a variety of other relying advisers, all of which are either wholly owned
by, or under common control, with FIG LLC (each a “Relying Adviser”). FIG LLC is
registered with the SEC as an investment adviser. The Relying Advisers are covered by FIG
LLC’s registration as relying advisors pursuant to applicable SEC guidance. As such, this
Form ADV Part 2 is intended to cover the investment advisory activities of FIG LLC and all
of its Relying Advisers. For ease of reference, the term “Fortress” is used throughout this
brochure and should be understood to include FIG LLC and, where applicable, all of its
various Relying Advisers.
Principal Owners of FIG LLC
The following is an organizational chart depicting the “principal owners” of FIG LLC which
is shaded below as of March 30, 2024. Please see Item 10 (Other Financial Industry
Activities and Affiliations) for a list of all Relying Advisers and certain other affiliates.
Fortress Investment
Group LLC
SoftB ank Group Corp
(TSE: SFTBY)
Foundat ion (GP) Holdings
LLC
SB Foundation Holdings
LP
Foundation Holdco LP
FINCO I LLC
FINCO I Intermediate
Holdco LLC
FIG Parent, LLC
SB Foundation Holdings
(GP) LLC
Managing Member
90.01%
Sole Member
100%
Foundation Holdings LP
General Partner
Managing Member
FIG Corp.
Fortress Operating
Entity I LP
FIG LLC
100%
Limited Partner
Sole Member
Sole Member
Sole Member
Limited Partner
Limited Partner
General Partner
Fortress’s Advisory Services
Fortress’s advisory services are comprised of the following primary business lines:
Private Equity
Investment Funds
The Private Equity fund business is comprised of general buyout and sector-specific
funds focused on control-oriented investments in cash flow generating assets and
asset-based businesses in North America, the Caribbean and Western Europe.
Permanent Capital Vehicles
The permanent capital vehicles business is comprised of the following entities: (i)
Eurocastle Investment Limited (Euronext Amsterdam: ECT), (ii) FTAI Aviation Ltd.
(Nasdaq: FTAI), and (iii) FTAI Infrastructure Inc. (Nasdaq: FIP), which are publicly
traded companies that are externally managed by Fortress pursuant to management
agreements (collectively, referred to as the "Permanent Capital Vehicles" or "PCVs").
The PCVs invest in a wide variety of assets including non-performing loans, other
real estate related assets, and transportation and infrastructure assets.
Credit
The Fortress Credit business invests globally and includes private equity style credit-
focused funds, hybrid hedge fund structures and private real estate investment trusts
(“Private REITs”), which are generally focused on opportunistic lending situations
and distressed and undervalued
assets (some with limited current cash flows and long
investment horizons) and tangible & intangible assets (real estate, capital assets,
natural resources, loans, corporate securities, intellectual property and other assets).
The Credit funds business is comprised of five main business lines. The flagship fund
strategies are Credit Private Equity Strategies, Lending Strategies, Real Estate
Strategies, Credit Hedge Fund Strategies, and Fixed Income & Trading Strategies.
The Credit funds business also provides tactical/niche and other strategies to take
advantage of unique opportunities.
Fortress has also launched the Fortress Multi-Manager Group, which is generally
focused on allocating capital to external investment managers.
Fortress Clients
For the most part, Fortress’s Clients can be broadly categorized as either (i) pooled
investment vehicles that are structured as limited partnerships, limited liability companies or
corporations and which comply with Section 3(c)(1) or 3(c)(7) of the Investment Company
Act of 1940 (the “Investment Company Act”), for the purpose of pursuing one or more
alternative asset investment strategies, which may be either limited life entities, such as
Fortress’s private equity funds, or “open-end”, perpetual life entities, such as Fortress’s hedge
funds (collectively, the “Private Funds”); (ii) single investor managed accounts or funds, the
investment strategies of which typically parallel all or a portion of the investment strategies
of one or more of the Private Funds (“Managed Accounts”); (iii) Permanent Capital Vehicles
and other publicly traded vehicles; (iv) structured products for which Fortress serves as the
collateral manager (“Structured Products”); and (v) Private REITs . The Private Funds, taken
together with the Managed Accounts, Permanent Capital Vehicles and other publicly traded
vehicles, Structured Products and Private REITs, are referred to throughout this brochure as
the “Clients.”
Certain Relying Advisers are wholly-owned by Fortress Clients. In other words, in certain
circumstances, Clients themselves own investment advisers for which Fortress employees
provide services. In these circumstances, any compensation received for services provided to
clients of such Relying Adviser is retained by such Relying Adviser or the Clients that own
such Relying Adviser.
Customized Services for Individual Clients
As described above, Fortress provides investment advisory services to a number of
institutional Managed Accounts, which, unlike the Private Funds and Private REITs
described above, are generally formed for the specific purpose of managing the assets of a
single institutional investor. The investment strategies for the Managed Accounts may, and
generally do, parallel all or a portion of the investment strategies of one or more of the
Private Funds, but there are, on occasion, differences between the investment strategies of a
Managed Account and any other Fortress Client. The advisory services provided to each
Managed Account, and the related terms and fees, are negotiated on a case-by-case basis.
Fortress enters into agreements to advise Managed Accounts only under limited
circumstances. However, the assets under management of Managed Accounts may,
individually or in the aggregate, be substantial in proportion to the Private Funds whose
investment strategies they parallel.
Certain of the Clients may from time to time enter into agreements (“Side Letters”) with one
or more of their investors whereby, in consideration for agreeing to invest certain amounts in
a Client and/or other consideration, such investors may be granted favorable rights not
afforded other investors in such Client. Such rights may include one or more of the following:
rights to receive reports from the Client on a more frequent basis or that include information
not typically provided to other investors; rights to receive reduced rates of performance
fees/allocations and/or management fees earned by Fortress, each Client’s general partner
and/or other affiliates; and such other rights as may be negotiated between the Client,
Fortress and such investors. Side Letters may be entered into by the Client and Fortress
without the consent of other investors in such Client. Additionally, except as may be required
by “most-favored-nations” clauses or as required under the Offering Documents, Side Letters
will not be disclosed to other investors in such Client.
Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2023, Fortress had approximately $79,958,842,906 in discretionary
regulatory assets under management.