Harvest Capital Partners LLC ("Harvest") was established as a limited liability company on September 22, 2004. Harvest provides real estate advisory and investment consulting services to select pension fund clients. Harvest is registered with the SEC, and is certified as a Woman-Owned Business Enterprise in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The principal owner of Harvest Capital Partners LLC is Erin O'Boyle.
Harvest tailors its services to the individual needs to clients, and consults with clients to meet their portfolio objectives, including portfolio construction, full allocation, portfolio rebalancing, and performance management. Harvest also conducts manager searches, evaluates, implements and benchmarks fund managers and direct investment managers, and tactically advises on asset sales, troubled assets, and asset plans for direct investments. Harvest provides only consulting services to its clients and does not directly manage client assets as an investment manager would.
Consulting services provided by Harvest include: Portfolio Construction
•Preparing portfolio allocation/re-allocation plans based upon client goals.
•Developing overweighting/underweighting strategies to outperform industry performance benchmarks.
•Performing risk adjusted return analysis.
•Providing in depth advisory services for all real estate investment vehicles - direct-owned portfolios, closed- and open ended fund investments, and REITs.
•Advising on selection of investment managers, strategic liquidations, terminations, diversification, and redeployment of proceeds.
•Making portfolio-level debt recommendations. Direct Separate Account: Investment Manager Execution Strategies
•Advising on terms of Investment Management Agreements.
•Developing client investment guidelines for investment managers.
•Reviewing direct investments and disposition recommendations of investment managers.
•Developing strategies with client to increase investment deal flow when under-allocated and to reduce exposure when over-allocated.
•Evaluating

effectiveness of Investment Manager Agreements and investment manager compensation arrangements through various market cycles.
•Performing due diligence on Direct Separate Discretionary Account Managers
•Providing Hold Sell Analysis for client's decision making. Performance Benchmarking
•Developing appropriate performance bench marking both at the portfolio level and for individual portfolio segments.
•Developing real estate fund metrics to evaluate real estate fund performance.
•Performing risk-adjusted return analysis comparison to peers and to other lower risk options.
•Evaluating effectiveness of manager incentives. Client Communication and Reporting
•Preparing annual and quarterly reports on portfolio performance.
•Reviewing separate account managers Annual Business Plans and Portfolio Strategy Plans, annual asset valuations, and quarterly portfolio results.
•Participating in periodic calls with clients to track progress against goals and with investment 4 managers regarding tactical issues.
•Preparing special reports as required, including evaluation of direct and fund investment managers and review of potential investment opportunities. Specific examples of Harvest's hands-on strategic consulting services include:
•Guided repositioning of direct opportunistic investment portfolios outside of guidelines toward a more direct core portfolio.
•Recommended division of ownership of a mixed use hotel/office project and negotiation of a reciprocal easement agreement in order to facilitate asset sale.
•Successfully advocated to trigger a Buy-Sell agreement to acquire partner's 50% interest in trophy property, thus enabling sale of property.
•Recommended terms to negotiate joint ventures or acquisitions of joint venture interests.
•Recommended sale of large entitled office redevelopment site rather than hold/redevelop.
•Advocated negotiation of enhanced liquidity rights in partnership agreement with joint venture owner of trophy urban shopping center.