Lion Equity Investment Advisors, LLC (“Lion Equity” or the “Firm”) is a Delaware limited liability
company founded in 2016 and principally owned by Edward James (“Jim”) Levitas and Ari J. Silverman.
Lion Equity’s principal place of business is located in Denver, Colorado.
Lion Equity is an operations-focused value investor specializing in corporate divestitures and special
situations in the lower middle market. The Firm’s investment advisory services include identifying and
evaluating investment opportunities, negotiating the terms of investments, managing and monitoring
investments, and selling portfolio investments. Lion Equity leverages its strategic, financial, and operational
expertise to build businesses to create long-term value for all stakeholders. The Firm plans to make
investments in a number of industries, including, but not limited to, business services, logistics and
distribution, information technology, mature software, and light manufacturing. Lion Equity’s portfolio
investments are headquartered in the United States, Mexico or Canada and may have operations throughout
the world.
Lion Equity provides investment advisory
services to pooled investment vehicles (each a “Fund,” and
collectively, the “Funds”). The Firm manages each of its Funds within the guidelines and restrictions set
forth in each Fund’s offering documents and within regulatory guidelines and limitations. The Funds are
expected to generally seek to rely on an exemption from registration under the Investment Company Act
of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”) and their securities will not be registered under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). Lion Equity provides discretionary investment
management services to the Funds in accordance with the applicable limited liability company operating
agreement, limited partnership agreement, management agreement, subscription agreement, and side letters
of each Fund (each, an “Advisory Agreement”). The Advisory Agreements of a Fund, along with any
private placement memoranda and related materials are referred to herein collectively as the “Offering
Documents” of such Fund.
Assets Under Management
As of December 31, 2023, Lion Equity manages $222,060,762 of regulatory assets on a discretionary basis.