Purpose and Expertise

PURPOSE

Arch partners with its clients, and their founders, to provide solutions throughout the asset management, or product, lifecycle.

We advise our clients to:

  • Ensure their platform attracts quality investors and grows both organically and inorganically.

  • Evolve their business successfully to pursue their own vision and culture, and be leaders in their fields.

  • Adopt a capital structure in the best interest of all stakeholders, positioning our client for future growth and attracting strategic partners.

  • Navigate key challenges and inflection points facing the client.

EXPERTISE

Arch specialises in financial services only, with a focus on high-quality emerging to mid-market asset managers. 

Arch has expertise in previously establishing, growing, managing and facilitating capital events for investment managers in the US and APAC regions.

Founder, Stephen Darke, has spent over 25 years in the financial services industry, based in New York, London and Sydney focused on both investment banking and asset management, with a focus on alternatives. He was responsible for portfolio manager origination and diligence, venture/seed capital funding, provision of acceleration capital and cornerstone fund investment, product development/organic growth, business and fundraising strategy, M&A, and valuation/monetization of manager equity stakes.