Arctos Sports Partners

Arctos Sports Partners is a private investment firm that provides bespoke growth and liquidity solutions, differentiated thought partnership, and value creation advice to sports franchises and alternative asset managers. Founded in 2019, the firm serves as a catalyst for innovation and business transformation for its portfolio companies and markets. The firm’s proprietary approach is anchored by its unique quantitative research and data science platform, Arctos Insights. Arctos has a team of more than 50 investment and operational professionals with investment and operating expertise across industries, geographies, and economic cycles. The firm is headquartered in Dallas, with office locations in New York and London.

Arctos focuses on acquiring passive minority stakes in professional sports franchises and providing thoughtful liquidity and structured growth capital solutions to sports franchise control owners and governors. The firm is the only institutional investor approved to invest in multiple teams by MLB, the NBA, the NHL, MLS, global motor sports organizations, and European soccer federations. Arctos has invested in over 25 professional sports groups and franchises, including Fenway Sports Group, Chicago Cubs, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Paris Saint-Germain F.C.

The firm’s investment strategy includes providing single-owner liquidity or more comprehensive liquidity solutions for ownership groups, partnering with new control owners or diversified platform builders to acquire sports franchises, and enhancing current financing options and access to capital. Arctos also focuses on fund local growth through ROI-generating projects and/or the optimization of existing assets, and transformative platform M&A to create the next generation sports-anchored entertainment platform. The firm’s proprietary platform, Arctos Capital Markets, is dedicated to identifying and connecting qualified high-net-worth investors directly with professional sports ownership opportunities, leveraging the firm’s portfolio and pipeline, global capital network, and data-driven insights.

Arctos is committed to being a trusted partner for major sports franchises and limited partners seeking access to the robust and durable industry of professional sports. The firm’s unique quantitative research and data science platform, Arctos Insights, produces unique, data-driven research and content on sports industry trends, opportunities, and valuations, providing valuable insights to its portfolio companies and the broader sports ecosystem. Arctos’ team of more than 50 investment and operational professionals with investment and operating expertise across industries, geographies, and economic cycles, along with its senior operating advisors with deep experience in all aspects of sports business operations, bring value-add capabilities to support franchise owners and executives.

Arctos is headquartered in Dallas, with office locations in New York and London. For more information, visit www.arctospartners.com or Arctos’ company page on LinkedIn.