Puzzle

Connecting great opportunities with the right capital

Arc Advisors is a strategic advisory firm providing private placement and investor relations services to a select group of high-performing alternative asset managers across their life cycles.

Winding Road

Fundraising is never a straight line - we follow the curves to exceed your target

Arc Advisors is a strategic advisory firm providing private placement and investor relations services to a select group of high-performing alternative asset managers across their life cycles.

Handshake

Let us manage the fundraise, so you can focus on your business

Arc Advisors is a strategic advisory firm providing private placement and investor relations services to a select group of high-performing alternative asset managers across their life cycles.

Chess Pawns

Less is more - we work with a select group of clients in which we have extremely high conviction

Arc Advisors is a strategic advisory firm providing private placement and investor relations services to a select group of high-performing alternative asset managers across their life cycles.

Arc

Leverage our relationships
and decades of fundraising and capital markets experience

Arc Advisors is a strategic advisory firm providing private placement and investor relations services to a select group of high-performing alternative asset managers across their life cycles.

Our Services

Fundraising for Primary Funds

Placement of Direct Transactions

Strategic Advisory

Business Development

Investor Relations

Asset Classes

Private Equity

Private Credit

Venture Capital

Real Estate

Infrastructure

Digital Assets

The Arc Approach

Client Alignment

Only engage where there is true passion

Flexible approach, customized for each client

Limited, select placement mandates to ensure dedicated and consistent focus

Expertise

Successful fundraising track record

In-depth understanding of the process and persistence required to close

Depth of knowledge across alternative asset classes to appropriately position offerings

Deep Relationships

Credibility established by satisfying preferences with high-quality opportunities

Differentiated investor network from founders’ investment banking, capital markets, and legal backgrounds

Life Cycle Partners

Promote clients between fundraises, consistently nurturing relationships

Partner with clients only when confident Arc can deliver outstanding results

Serve as an extension of the team, so clients can focus on their core businesses

Team

Over the last two decades, the Arc team has cultivated an outstanding reputation with a broad network of institutional investors based on performance, high ethics, credibility, access, and its depth and breadth of knowledge.

Harriet Habert is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Arc Advisors. Prior to Arc, Ms. Habert was the Managing Member of Habert Capital Advisors LLC, where she advised and raised institutional capital for alternative asset managers. Prior to founding Habert Capital Advisors, Ms. Habert was a Senior Director at Invesco Private Capital and a Client Portfolio Manager for the firm’s private credit, private equity, and venture capital strategies. Her prior experience includes leading institutional sales for Hollis Park Partners LP, where she developed and implemented the marketing strategy for the launch of a structured product hedge fund, and distributing structured products in the capital markets at UBS Securities and BMO Capital Markets.

Ms. Habert began her career in New York City as a structured finance attorney and spent five years at Skadden Arps where she represented underwriters, issuers, and investors in all aspects of structured finance transactions. Ms. Habert received a JD from Cornell Law School and a BA from Binghamton University, where she graduated with honors.

Ms. Habert is a Member of the Advisory Board for The Ackerman Institute’s Gender and Family Project and a Member of the New York State Bar.

Nia White is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Arc Advisors. Prior to Arc, she was a Partner and the Head of Investor Relations and External Affairs for Astra Capital Management, a private equity spin-out of The Carlyle Group, where she helped raise the firm’s inaugural fund and co-investments. Previously, Ms. White expanded North American institutional investor relationships for GP Investments, a leading Latin American alternatives manager. Prior thereto, she was an Investment Principal in the Investor Development Group at Actis, where she helped raise several pan-emerging market alternatives funds and opened the firm’s office in New York City. Before joining Actis, Ms. White was a Founding Partner of MAP Capital, a private placement firm.

Ms. White began her career at Goldman Sachs & Co. where she was an Associate in High Yield and a Vice President in Principal Finance in the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Division.

Ms. White serves as the Capital Access Advisor to the National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) and on the boards of WellbeingXP, New Markets Investors, and The Bakari Foundation. Ms. White received a BS in Economics and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Brian Lahart is a Managing Director of Arc Advisors. Prior to Arc, he was a Managing Director and Head of Manager Research at Abbot Downing (Wells Fargo’s ultra-high net worth division) where he built and led their alternative investments research platform. While at Abbot Downing, Mr. Lahart wrote and implemented the firm’s due diligence procedures and led a team responsible for sourcing and vetting funds across venture capital, buyout, private credit, private real estate, secondaries, and hedge fund strategies. Previously, Mr. Lahart was a Founding Partner and Head of Risk Management for Allianz Hedge Fund Partners, where he led the firm’s portfolio risk management function and performed due diligence across the firm’s hedge fund portfolio. His prior experience includes performing risk management oversight and operational due diligence for Citigroup’s Alternative Investments Strategies Group.

Mr. Lahart serves on the Investment Committee for the San Domenico School Endowment and is a CFA charter holder. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

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