Global Emerging Markets

Global Emerging Markets (GEM) is a $3.4 billion alternative investment group that manages a diverse set of investment vehicles focused on emerging markets across the world. GEM's investment vehicles provide the group and its investors with a diversified portfolio of asset classes that span the global private investing spectrum. Each investment vehicle has a different degree of operational control, risk-adjusted return, and liquidity profile. Their family of funds and investment vehicles provide GEM and its partners with exposure to Small-Mid Cap Management Buyouts, Private Investments in Public Equities (PIPEs), and select venture investments.

GEM structures, executes, and monitors its transactions. The firm both self-sources its transactions and has over 450 signed agreements in more than 70 countries with agents, brokers, bankers, accountants, lawyers, etc., which give GEM access to a steady stream of deal flow. GEM believes that due diligence on people is very important. Accounting, legal, and operational due diligence provide their principals with only part of the picture. GEM has been consistently successful in aligning the goals of all constituencies involved in a transaction before and during the holding period. GEM takes an active role in its portfolio companies, providing not only strategic and tactical direction but also an expanded professional network for their companies to leverage.

GEM's portfolio includes both control and minority investments across various industries and stages. Notable control investments include Willard Marine, a company with a proven track record of designing and building rugged vessels for military and law enforcement agencies. Minority investments include Accsys Technologies Plc, an environmental science and technology company that develops and commercializes technologies used in a wide range of everyday materials. GEM's approach combines operational control with strategic guidance, aiming to enhance the value and growth of its portfolio companies in emerging markets.