Iron Stone makes strategic capital investments in real estate-related operating businesses. We focus on companies challenged by the need to effect immediate and substantial change. Iron Stone structures win-win transactions that align the interests of management, employees, and capital. In our experience an even-tempered, collaborative approach to the interests of the stakeholders, rather than the confrontational approach often employed by other investors in the market, usually leads to the most profitable result.

Iron Stone typically invests in businesses with solid management platforms that operate in out-of-favor markets. Capital markets sometimes rule out companies in industries that are cyclical or contracting. We have been successful in sponsoring buyout transactions in these kinds of businesses, due to our more long-term perspective on value. The diversity of experience among Iron Stone's principals, including management of operating companies ranging from finance and insurance to construction and retail, gives us the understanding and insight necessary to effect successful turnarounds. Within Iron Stone we operate collaboratively as a team, and we bring this orientation to our relationship with venture partners.