INVESTMENT BANKING PARTNERSHIP ACROSS THE PRIVATE MARKETS
The evolving private market requires a more aligned, independent and agile investment banking partnership.
In the private markets, integrity, knowledge and connections are power.
INVESTMENT BANKING SERVICES
PRIMARY CAPITAL RAISING
Bastiat Partners optimizes capital structures to accelerate growth by leveraging tailored resources and curating introductions to optimal partners from its unique and deep rolodex of investors that possess flexible and patient capital, ideal for tailoring customized equity, debt and structured solutions depending on unique client requirements.
SECONDARY ADVISORY SERVICES
Bastiat Partners creates liquidity for sellers and creates transparency in the secondary market for buyers through active monitoring and aggregating of private market data.
CO-INVESTMENT SERVICES
Bastiat Partners collaborates with best-in-class GPs, fundless sponsors, and SPV managers on compelling opportunities that leverage manager expertise in asymmetric value creation opportunities.
LEADERSHIP TEAM
EXPERIENCED SOPHISTICATED PARTNERS
NADER AFSHAR
Nader is the Founder and Managing Partner of Bastiat Partners, where he leads the firm’s overall strategy, advisory services across primary capital raising, secondary transactions, and co-investment opportunities, as well as its research initiatives.
Prior to creating Bastiat Partners, Nader spent nearly a decade at J.P. Morgan in New York and Europe in the investment banking division, specializing in financial institutions. Nader has experience domestically and internationally in advising family offices, venture capital firms, and hedge funds.
Nader holds an MBA from Georgetown University.
JAKE FISHER
Jake is a Managing Director at Bastiat Partners, focused on Fund Placement and Co-investments. He brings a decade of fundraising experience to each of his engagements. He helped scale Coatue’s private market fundraising efforts between 2015 and 2020 and led the firm’s co-investment strategy. In 2020, Mr. Fisher joined Delta-v Capital, successfully raising over $200M during his time at the firm. In 2023, Mr. Fisher helped an independent sponsor launch its first fund, successfully raising a $100M+ strategy focused on fertility. Jake received a B.S. in Communications from Cornell University where he was also the Captain of the Cornell Men’s Swimming & Diving Team.
KARAN LALL
Karan is a Managing Director at Bastiat Partners. Karan specializes in capital raising advisory and secondary transactions. Karan has previously served as an investment professional at Golub Capital (credit, distressed, restructuring, venture lending) and Mill Road Capital (long/short, private equity, activism), and as an investment banker at Citi, covering a broad range of industries including technology, industrials, healthcare, and consumer/retail. Karan holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences and B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University.
Bastiat Partners, LLC
2121 Avenue of the Stars Suite 800
Los Angeles, CA 90067
+1 (424) 253 1150
info@bastiatpartners.com