Identify your principal owner(s).
Laramar Multi-Family Value Manager, LLC (“Laramar MFV”) is a Delaware
limited liability company formed in December 2005. Laramar MFV’s
headquarters is located in Chicago, Illinois and has another regional office in
Denver, Colorado. Laramar MFV and its affiliates, described below are
ultimately controlled by Jeffrey S. Elowe through his ownership in the Laramar
Group, LLC, Laramar Holding Company, LLC, and certain estate planning
vehicles.
For a variety of operational, legal, and regulatory reasons, Laramar MFV
conducts its business through a group of related advisers including Nine Four
Ventures GP, LLC (“Nine Four Ventures”) and Nine Four Ventures GP II, LLC
(“Nine Four Ventures II”), which are also registered as relying investment
advisers under Laramar MFV’s registration.
Laramar MFV provides investment advice with respect to investments in multi-
family real estate assets in the United States (“Real Estate Assets”). Laramar
MFV provides discretionary investment advisory services to multi-investor
investment vehicles, including certain pooled investment vehicles that are
organized as private funds. In addition, Laramar MFV provides non-
discretionary investment management services to various co-investment
vehicles (“Co-Investment Vehicles”).
Nine Four Ventures and Nine Four Ventures II are Delaware limited liability
companies. Nine Four Ventures and Nine Four Ventures II provide investment
advice with respect to venture capital investments in early-stage real estate
technology and related service companies. Nine Four Ventures and Nine Four
Ventures II provide discretionary investment advisory services to multi-investor
investment vehicles, including certain pooled investment vehicles that are
organized as private funds and co-investment vehicles.
An affiliate of Laramar MFV, Laramar Workforce Housing GP II, LLC
(“Laramar Workforce II GP”) is a sponsor (“Sponsor”) of Lakeside Workforce
Housing II, LP (“Lakeside Fund”), a private fund client managed by Laramar
MFV. Laramar Workforce II GP serves as a member of the Lakeside Fund’s
general partner (“Lakeside General Partner”). In addition, the Laramar Group,
L.L.C. is indirectly a Limited Partner of the Lakeside Fund. An affiliate of
Laramar MFV, Laramar Workforce Housing GP, LLC (“Laramar Workforce
GP”) was a sponsor (“Sponsor”) of Lakeside Workforce Housing, LP. Lakeside
Workforce Housing, LP was liquidated as of December 31, 2021.
Additionally, affiliates of Laramar MFV, the Laramar Urban Neighborhood
Group, LLC and Laramar Urban Neighborhood Capital Group, LLC (“Urban
Neighborhood GPs”) serve as general partners to the Lubert-Adler / Laramar
1 Laramar Workforce GP has four members, one of which is a trust of Jeffery S. Elowe.
Urban Neighborhood Fund, L.P. and Lubert-Adler / Laramar Urban
Neighborhood Capital Fund, L.P. (“Urban Neighborhood Funds”).
Nine Four Ventures serves as the general partner of Nine Four Ventures, LP and
94V Co-Invest, LP and Nine Four Ventures II serves as general partner to Nine
Four Ventures II, LP (the “Venture Funds”).
Collectively, Lakeside Fund, the Urban Neighborhood Funds, and the Venture
Funds mentioned in the prior paragraphs are referred to throughout this
document as the (“Funds” or “Fund(s)”).
In the future, Laramar MFV, Nine Four Ventures and/or Nine Four Ventures II
may advise similar Funds with similar or substantially different terms from the
Funds.
Laramar MFV also provides non-discretionary investment management
services, directly or indirectly, to the Co-Investment Vehicles. In each case an
affiliate of Laramar MFV, or the Laramar Group, is non-controlling limited
partner, or member of the Co-Investment Vehicle. Such Co-Investment Vehicles
provide the opportunity for Laramar MFV affiliates and more third parties to
invest in “side-pocket” investments that are not within the investment parameters
of the Funds, due to factors including but not limited to size of the investment,
liquidity, timing and nature of the investment. Generally, unlike the Funds, each
Co-Investment Vehicle is established for the specific purpose of making specific
investment(s) (and any related follow-on investment). Each such Co-Investment
Vehicle is ultimately controlled by and the day to day investment management
services are performed by an unaffiliated entity. Neither Laramar MFV, Nine
Four Ventures, or any such affiliates act as general partners to these non-
discretionary Co-Investment Vehicles.
The members of the executive committee and investment committee with respect
to the Funds are Jeffrey S. Elowe, Bennett Neuman, and Scott McMillan
(collectively the “Principals”).
The Lakeside Fund has also established an investment committee (the “Lakeside
Investment Committee”) consisting of representatives of the sponsors of the
fund, with Laramar Workforce GP II holding 50% of the seats on the Investment
Committee. In addition, the Lakeside General Partner may appoint an advisory
committee (the “Lakeside Advisory Committee”) comprised of between three
and five representatives of the Investors of the Lakeside Fund and the Sponsors.
specializing in a particular type of advisory service, such as financial
planning, quantitative analysis, or market timing, explain the nature of that
service in greater detail. If you provide investment advice only with respect
to limited types of investments,
explain the type of investment advice you
offer, and disclose that your advice is limited to those types of investments.
Laramar MFV offers real estate investment advisory and management services.
Laramar MFV’s investment strategy primarily includes pursuing value-add
investments in multi-family and mixed-use Real Estate Assets. The investments
recommended by Laramar MFV for the Funds may include equity investments
in real estate and loans secured by Real Estate Assets.
Laramar MFV provides non-discretionary investment management services
related to the identification, acquisition, management, monitoring and
disposition of investments for the Co-Investment Vehicles. As discussed below,
Laramar MFV is not compensated for these investment management services.
Please see Item 8.A. for a detailed description of the advisory services.
Nine Four Ventures and Nine Four Ventures II provide investment advisory
services related to venture capital investments in early-stage real estate
technology and related service companies to realize long-term capital
appreciation.
individual needs of clients. Explain whether clients may impose restrictions
on investing in certain securities or types of securities.
Laramar MFV, Nine Four Ventures and Nine Four Ventures II generally provide
investment advisory services to private pooled investment vehicles (each, a “Fund”).
The Funds are typically [U.S. limited partnerships] and other investment vehicles.
The Funds typically are not registered under the Investment Company Act of
1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”), and the interests or
offerings of the Funds are not registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the “Securities Act”).
Laramar MFV, Nine Four Ventures and Nine Four Ventures II manage the Funds
in accordance with the investment restrictions and limitations set forth in the
following documents: the investment management agreement between each
Fund and Laramar MFV or its affiliates, the confidential private placement
memorandum of the Funds (the “PPM”), investment management agreement (the
“Management Agreement”) the summary of the Fund’s principal terms of the
Funds (the “Term Sheet”), subscription agreements and the limited partnership
agreement of the Funds (collectively, the “Governing Documents”).
All investors are provided with a PPM or Term Sheet, subscription agreement,
and limited partnership agreement prior to making an investment. Investors
should refer to the detailed provisions in the PPMs or the Term Sheets regarding
the investment advisory services of Laramar MFV, Nine Four Ventures, Nine
Four Ventures II or its affiliates, as applicable. Prior to investing in the Funds,
an investor is required to enter into a subscription agreement, which sets forth
the investor’s suitability for an investment in a Fund.
Laramar generally does not tailor its advisory services to the individual needs of
investors and investors generally may not impose restrictions on investing in
certain securities or types of securities.
Notwithstanding, several of the Funds have entered into side letter arrangements
with certain investors to provide specific limitations or restrictions that are
designed to address the investor’s particular legal, tax, investment or other
objectives (a “Side Letter”). Examples of these types of investor restrictions and
limitations include prohibitions on investing in a particular country, a limitation
on how much capital may be invested in a single investment, or a limitation on
the incurrence of unrelated business taxable income. Side Letters may impose
additional limitations on Laramar MFV, Nine Four Ventures and/or Nine Four
Ventures II that may be beneficial to one group of investors but may result in
additional cost to the Funds or may not be optimal from the perspective of other
investors.
With respect to the Co-Investment Vehicles, Laramar MFV provides non-
discretionary investment management services tailored to the need of each such
vehicle, in each case subject to the restrictions set forth in the relative operating
agreements.
All descriptions of the Funds in this brochure, including, but not limited to, their
investments, the strategies used in managing the Funds, the fees and other costs
associated with an investment in the Funds, and conflicts of interest faced by
Laramar MFV, Nine Four Ventures GP, and Nine Four Ventures II GP in
connection with management of the Funds are qualified in their entirety by
reference to the relevant Fund’s respective Governing Documents.
Persons reviewing this brochure should not construe this brochure as an offering
of any the Funds described herein, which will only be made pursuant to the
delivery of a confidential offering memorandum to prospective eligible investors.
services, (1) describe the differences, if any, between how you manage wrap
fee accounts and how you manage other accounts, and (2) explain that you
receive a portion of the wrap fee for your services.
Not applicable.
on a discretionary basis and the amount of client assets you manage on a
non-discretionary basis. Disclose the date “as of” which you calculated the
amounts.
As of December 31, 2023, Laramar MFV, Nine Four Ventures, and Nine Four
Ventures II manage $ 620,700,918 in client assets on a discretionary basis and $
1,378,128,135 on a non-discretionary basis.