Grosvenor Square Limited ("GSL") is a merchant bank focused on serving clients located in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. We make loans to private companies as well as private equity investments. We also invest in bonds (investment grade and high yield bonds). In addition, we provide debt capital raising, asset sale advisory and certain restructuring services to a select group of companies, private equity firms, lenders, family offices and government entities. Our Energy Group trades physical commodities such as crude oil, ultra low sulfur diesel, gasoline and marine fuels.
Prior to forming GSL, our professionals had over 20 years of experience with some of the world's leading investment banks, private equity firms, asset management firms, and hedge funds with over $20 billion of assets under management. Our Advisory Board Members and consultants also have extensive experience running companies in North America and Europe. Their experience can be leveraged to create significant value for our clients. Our senior professionals are highly engaged in every transaction.
The GSL difference can be summarized as follows:
We are passionate about delivering optimal executions for our clients
We put the best interests of our clients first
We seek to build long-term relationships with our clients
We are relentless in our pursuit of perfection and seek to perform at the highest level at all times
We have spent many highly successful years on the buy-side and understand the mind-set and business approach of professionals on the buy-side. Our “peer-to-peer” interactions afford us a distinct advantage over other firms
We invest in companies in partnership with family offices (see the "Principal Investing" page for more information)
We partner with seasoned and talented operating executives to ensure deep industry knowledge on engagements where we do not already have significant domain expertise
We devise elegant solutions to highly complex problems that others are unable or unwilling to solve
We offer competitive fee structures