Douglas Bratton

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Douglas Bratton is Founding Partner, Chief Investment Officer, and President of Crestline Investors, a credit-focused institutional alternative investment management firm. Bratton has been an investment professional with organizations utilizing alternative asset strategies since 1983. He has extensive experience in hedge fund management, credit strategies, private equity as well as venture capital. Since 1989, he has managed portfolios using these strategies on behalf of organizations associated with the Bass family. Prior to founding Crestline Investors, he was employed by Taylor & Company, an investment organization associated with members of the Bass family.

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Crestline Investors is a premier alternative investment management firm that creates capital solutions that generate consistent risk-adjusted returns over multiple market and economic cycles.
The firm specializes in credit and opportunistic investments, including providing flexible capital solutions to middle market companies, asset backed investing and financing and restructuring solutions for mature private equity funds.
Crestline Investors provides proven creative solutions tailored to emerging companies and financial sponsors seeking growth capital and bridge financing in North America, Europe and Asia, as well as flexibility and capacity to lend.

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Since 1989, he has managed portfolios using these strategies on behalf of organizations associated with the Bass family.
During this period, he also negotiated alternative asset related purchases and joint ventures. These include: lift-outs of proprietary trading groups, seeding of asset managers and the acquisition of investment management organizations.
He served as a Partner of the Airlie Group, where he managed the merger arbitrage and special situation portfolio.
Before that, he was Vice President in the Merger Arbitrage group for Smith Barney Harris Upham and Company.

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