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About Us
Strategic Focus
We are a financial advisory boutique with a primary focus to create financing solutions for US-based commercial real estate (CRE) hotel/resort developers seeking to fund a robust pipeline of projects in the hospitality space. Our core concentration areas is to create private funds for developers through institutional debt offerings though our affiliate fund group in London. We are focused on raising creative these capital solutions, assisting with business planning and due diligence. Solutions may include multi-tiered equity and debt capital structures. We coordinate and work with several providers for each transaction and draw upon traditional and non-traditional capital sources, including institutional debt in Europe established through the London fund group, debt and private equity, domestic & foreign family offices, and global hedge investors.
We will also entertain financing requests for special situations outside of the CRE space, include energy initiatives, some for acceptance into an existing carbon-neutral fund with the affiliate group in London.
Friendship's main focus areas are as follows:
● CRE pipeline capitalization through private fund structures
●GP/LP equity and debt capital for acquisitions and re-developments, recapitalizations and exits
● Carbon-neutral and O&G energy
● Monetization strategies
Our Contact Information
Jonathan M. Friend, CFA
Senior Managing Partner
Friendship Holdings, LLC
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jonathanmfriend-cfa
Gabriela La Rage
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/gabrielalarage.
Experience
Our team built their careers on Wall Street. Friendship Holdings began in 2018 as a Angel Round investment group.
Our experience includes private fund creation, deal and asset management, financial modeling, and investment structures. The team has expertise in long-only, equity derivative, and alternative investment strategies, including hedge, private equity, and real estate.
Deal experience include fund structures, institutional debt financing, venture capital A, B, C equity rounds, bank and non-bank financing, and project exits. The team has a broad network of CRE developers, fund creators, company founders, entrepreneurs, venture, private equity specialists and investment bankers.
The partners of Friendship Holdings, LLC have institutional deal experience in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
Methodology
We seek to partner with passionate developers seeking to build fund structures for their pipeline of projects. We help developers uncover a well-suited model and brand identity through their own fund structure and grow the capitalization potential for their future projects.
In the private financing space, we will also entertain energy related initiatives, including the acceptance of certain projects into an existing carbon neutral fund through our affiliate group in London.
We strive for efficiency, accuracy, and professionalism.
The Friendship Team
Jonathan M. Friend, CFA
Jonathan M. Friend, CFA
Jonathan M. Friend, CFA
Jonathan began his investment career with Prudential Securities in Washington, D.C. He joined Bank of America in 1996 as a portfolio manager and became a founding member of the Bank's Alternative Investment Group in New York in 1998. He lead the structured product advisory team effort to grow the platform from $40MM in assets-under-mana
Jonathan began his investment career with Prudential Securities in Washington, D.C. He joined Bank of America in 1996 as a portfolio manager and became a founding member of the Bank's Alternative Investment Group in New York in 1998. He lead the structured product advisory team effort to grow the platform from $40MM in assets-under-management (AUM) in 1998 to a $5B platform, generating $50MM in revenue to the firm bottom line by 2008. Jonathan was responsible for the marketing of alternative investment and equity derivative solutions, and developed strategies for the Private Bank to broaden firm access to institutional markets in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and the Middle East. Jonathan holds an MBA in Finance from the American University in Washington, DC, and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. He launched Friendship Holdings in 2015.
Christopher F. Swenson
Jonathan M. Friend, CFA
Jonathan M. Friend, CFA
Chris is our Chief Financial Officer with over twenty years' experience as a CFO in the venture capital and private equity space, including deals in the U.K. and Japan with Fidelity Venture Capital. He has a deep background in investment banking and financial analysis of the telecommunication industry. Chris has strong deal experience w
Chris is our Chief Financial Officer with over twenty years' experience as a CFO in the venture capital and private equity space, including deals in the U.K. and Japan with Fidelity Venture Capital. He has a deep background in investment banking and financial analysis of the telecommunication industry. Chris has strong deal experience with equity, venture capital A, B, and C equity rounds, bank financing, and through IPO. He is skilled in risk management, cost and revenue analysis, accounting system development, corporate insurance, and payroll/employee benefits. Chris co-lead efforts to establish a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) working with Fidelity Ventures and executed a $100MM investment in Tokyo. Chris holds an MBA from Babson College. He joined Friendship Ventures as an advisor in 2016.