More Than Capital. A Partner Who’s Built It Before.
Most owners and acquirers don’t just need money — they need someone who has actually done it. Dunross Capital Partners works with a select number of founders, operators, business buyers, and commercial real estate owners each year as an advisor and, where we can add real capital and value, as a principal investor. We help put the deal together — sourcing, structuring, financing, and negotiating — and in the right situations we invest alongside you and stay involved. We succeed when you do.
We represent the capital — and we do not charge you to raise it. Our compensation comes from the capital source we represent; there is no fee billed to you for placing or raising money. Where a transaction calls for structuring, negotiation, or ongoing advisory and Board service, we charge for our expertise and time in a mutually aligned manner under a separate agreement.
When we believe in an opportunity where we can add real value, we may invest our own capital as a principal — fully aligned with you. That is a fundamentally different relationship than a broker who is paid to shop your deal. In fact, we work with brokers who show us deals.
We help you size, structure, and finance the transaction — acquisition, recapitalization, growth round, or buy-and-build — drawing on relationships across debt and equity. We have particular expertise and formal fund relationships in HUD commercial loans, SBIC and SBA business lending, real estate sale/leasebacks, and preferred equity.
Decades of institutional and private relationships, on both the debt and equity side, brought directly to your deal. We perform the initial underwriting and issue the term sheet for approval by the Investment Committee.
On opportunities where our expertise and business development can add real value, we invest our own capital and take an aligned position.
Real experience scaling companies through 50+ acquisitions and more than $500 million of commercial real estate — full deal integration, operations, and successful exits. Not theory.
We represent the capital, and we do not charge you to raise it — our compensation comes from the capital source. Where we invest as a principal, we participate as an investor, fully aligned with you — never as a fee for raising money. For advisory work and ongoing Board or related consulting, a separate fee agreement applies. We will be transparent about our role from the first conversation.
Our role and any securities-related activity are structured deal-specifically and in accordance with applicable law.
Dunross Capital Partners is led by Michael Crow — a CPA and Harvard Business School OPM graduate with 40+ years as a principal, operator, and investor. He built a $600M+, 5,000+ unit apartment portfolio acquired entirely off-market; scaled National Investment Managers from $200 million to over $13 billion in assets through 25+ acquisitions; and co-founded a conduit lending business with Lehman Brothers.
He has been on your side of the table. This is not easy, and there will be setbacks — but it is worth it.
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