Forum Capital Partners is a leading provider of advisory and fundraising services to experienced private equity fund managers seeking to diversify and enhance their investor bases.  Our extensive experience with established and emerging manager groups includes teams that are spinning out of existing general partner sponsors or large financial institutions, those that have managed "friends and family" portfolios or proprietary capital, groups raising their first or second institutional funds and former "fundless sponsors."  Forum also advises our fund management teams on investor relations and administration issues where desired.

We structure our engagements to align our interests with those of our clients.  We work with a limited number of fund groups each year to deliver continuous senior level involvement, and since we never represent competing funds, fund managers will always have priority with our institutional investor audience. 

Forum covers a worldwide network of institutional private equity investors and the consultants and advisors who support their decision-making processes.  Our investors include the largest corporate and public pension funds, leading endowments and foundations, fund of funds managers, insurance companies, banks and family offices. 

Forum was founded by Jeffrey Stern and Robert Schwabe in 2001 as the successor to the private equity business they built and managed at CIBC Oppenheimer and its predecessor firm.  Jeff and Bob have worked together since 1994 and have raised more than $3 billion in private equity fund commitments for buyout, growth equity, venture capital and real estate funds worldwide.