OUR FIRM
ALIGNMENT OF INTERESTS
CONSISTENT FIRM LEADERSHIP
SINGULAR INVESTMENT PHILOSOPHY
DISTINCTIVE FIRM CULTURE
Independent firm owned entirely by its investment professionals – unencumbered by distractions associated with larger organizations.
We invest alongside our clients in all that we do.
Leadership has been in place for over 20 years.
Average tenure of senior professionals is more than 15 years.
Gardner Lewis seeks to invest in differentiated opportunity sets where fundamental research and risk-advantaged positioning can drive favorable outcomes.
The Gardner Lewis Culture thrives on intellectual curiosity and teamwork. Integrated workflow combines with a “roll-up-the-sleeves” approach towards fundamental research to fuel an environment of original thinking.
INVESTMENT PHILOSOPHY
TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE
Companies experiencing a catalyst acting as a force to drive growth or unlock value.
RISK-ADVANTAGED
We seek investment opportunities with attractive upside potential and limited or muted downside risk.
RESEARCH
FUNDAMENTAL
In-depth work driven by the bottom-up analysis of each opportunity. The potential of each idea is evaluated from a financial and strategic perspective and the thesis is scrutinized rigorously before and during each investment.
INTEGRATED APPROACH
We believe in traders, analysts, and portfolio managers working together without compartmentalization. Our integrated “team” philosophy fuels original thinking.
VARIANT PERCEPTION
What is it that we understand about this opportunity that differs from the consensus view?
INVESTMENT STRATEGIES
MERGER ARBITRAGE
• Pure merger arbitrage
- Low volatility
- Uncorrelated
Seeks to produce consistent, uncorrelated returns with low volatility by investing in mergers and acquisitions. All deals are fundamentally researched and analyzed from a strategic, regulatory, financial, and stakeholder perspective. We believe our strict deal criteria and disciplined risk controls have allowed us to consistently deliver attractive risk-adjusted outcomes across various market cycles.
EVENT DRIVEN
• Special situations and Merger arbitrage
-Hard & soft catalyst
Seeks to dynamically allocate capital across hard and soft catalyst opportunity sets. The strategy attempts to pursue arbitrage & special situations throughout the capital structure. The preference is for convex return profiles (focused on limiting downside while providing attractive upside potential) in every investment. The strategy focuses on capital structure, liquidity, and risk-adjusted return analysis within each event. Events may be either positive or negative, including but not limited to corporate actions, recapitalizations, reorganization, change in industry dynamics, and/or corporate strategy change.
EQUITY
• Long/short
• Concentrated
Seeks to invest in fundamentally advantaged companies effecting disruptive innovation in an industry and those that are undergoing positive change as the result of one or more catalysts acting as a force to drive growth or unlock potential.
OUR HISTORY
Gardner Lewis Asset Management was founded in April 1990 by W. Whitfield Gardner and John L. Lewis IV.
The firm is rooted in the belief that a “roll-up-the-sleeves” approach to investing is the best way to uncover unrecognized opportunities. Since its inception, the firm has been privately-owned and maintains independence from any outside business affiliations or joint ventures. Gardner Lewis is based in the Brandywine Valley with its office located in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
Our firm fosters a team environment to provide the highest level of operational expertise and service to our clients. From the beginning, Gardner Lewis has valued a distinctive firm culture and has focused on pursuing favorable investment outcomes through a process that is differentiated and consistent. We believe these factors are integral to the value we offer our clients.
CONTACT US
Our offices are located in historic Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, convenient to the Wilmington, Delaware Amtrak Train Station (between NY and Washington D.C.), the Philadelphia International Airport, and the City of Philadelphia.
285 Wilmington-West Chester Pike
Chadds Ford, PA 19317
PHONE: 610.558.2800
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