Arctos Announces Expansion of Keystone into Real Estate and Real Assets

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arctos, a private investment firm that provides bespoke growth capital and liquidity solutions to sports franchises (Arctos Sports) and alternative asset managers (Arctos Keystone), today announced the formation of Arctos Keystone Real Assets (“AK-RA”) to expand Keystone’s capabilities into real estate and real assets. AK-RA will be a separate and distinct investment strategy from the Keystone Private Equity investment strategy.

The AK-RA team comprises four new hires, including Ira Shaw (Partner), Gina Spiegel (Partner), Greg Lombardi (Managing Director) and Robert DiGiovine (Vice President). In aggregate, the team has over 85 years of experience investing in direct real estate, secondaries, structured solutions, GP stakes equity, and preferred equity. The AK-RA team will be focused on identifying and facilitating partnership opportunities with real estate and real asset owners, operators, developers and sponsors. The group joins from Crow Holdings and will be based in Arctos’ upcoming Boston office.

“We are pleased to welcome Ira, Gina, Greg, and Bobby to the firm,” said Ian Charles, Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner at Arctos. “This team brings the institutional credibility and investment expertise needed to provide real assets managers with a thought partner and flexible, strategic capital to help those firms innovate, scale, and achieve their vision during a period of significant industry transformation.”

Since its launch in 2023, Arctos Keystone has partnered with several leading alternative asset managers, delivering flexible capital solutions that support growth, enable diversification, and unlock transformational opportunities. This expansion into real estate and real assets is a natural evolution of the Keystone strategy, reinforcing Arctos’ ability to serve as a long-term, value-added partner across private markets.

“At Arctos we share a vision of opportunity and innovation in private markets. As a strategic capital provider, the Arctos Keystone team has demonstrated an ability to deliver value for partners and investors through creative problem solving, data-driven insights, and transaction structuring,” said Ira Shaw. “We will extend these capabilities to the real estate and digital infrastructure sectors and are thrilled to join a team that is redefining the industry.”

“Amid broad market dislocation, investors are reassessing their allocations and looking for non-traditional opportunities to drive returns,” said Gina Spiegel. “Our approach seeks to deliver on this objective by providing access to high quality assets, while solving the liquidity and growth challenges faced by real assets sponsors, operators, and developers. Our goal is to position Keystone as the partner of choice for sponsors looking to navigate evolving market dynamics across all asset classes.”

About Arctos

Arctos is a private investment firm that provides bespoke growth capital and liquidity solutions, differentiated thought partnership, and value creation advice to sports franchises (Arctos Sports) and alternative asset managers, their funds, and portfolio companies (Arctos Keystone). Founded in 2019, Arctos serves as a catalyst for innovation and business transformation for its portfolio companies and its 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 65 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. For more information, visit www.arctospartners.com or Arctos’ company page on LinkedIn.