Our Approach

In 1992, Cerberus is founded during the U.S. Savings and Loan Crisis seeing the opportunity to acquire undervalued corporate debt and since that time, our Corporate Credit platform has invested well over $37 billion.

In 1995, we saw the opportunity to lend directly from private funds to growing middle-market companies and today, direct lending private credit is a multi-trillion AUM industry.

By the late 1990s, Cerberus recognized the value of having in-house operational experts to support investments and the seeds of Operational Private Equity were planted, a now common private equity model.

In response to the Asian Financial Crisis in the late 1990s, we learned the value of going all-in on building a sizable team to better solve complexity and respond to fundamental market dislocations.

In the early 2000s, Cerberus took this principle and became a first mover in building a Non-Performing Loan franchise in Europe.  

In the late 2000s, at a time when many investors were fleeing the market, we built an experienced team to invest in mortgages, loans, and real assets with proprietary operations.

During the post-Great Financial Crisis period, we continued to grow many of our established investment platforms and launched new operating capabilities.

In Europe, we established loan servicing practices with local and regional knowledge and became a trusted partner to leading European financial institutions.  

In the United States, we expanded our private equity focus on aerospace and defense and other government sectors.

Recognizing the rapidity of technology advancements, Cerberus launched proprietary operating capabilities to leverage emerging technology, data, AI / ML, and advanced analytics.

We also began establishing a dedicated team of government and policy experts to work with our investment, technology and operations teams on areas where the United States had critical gaps.

As a result, Cerberus was able to make strategic investments in areas such as subsea fiber optic cable systems, undersea defense technologies, and hypersonics.

With the conviction that national security and supply chain investing was a generational need, we continued to add leaders to our government, technology, and operations teams.

In 2022, our Supply Chain strategy launched its first dedicated funds and in 2023, we expanded our focus on the technologies shaping the future with the launch of Cerberus Ventures.

Today, our Supply Chain strategy continues to build upon our established platform and advance our thematic approach to investing in the long-term security and resilience of the United States and allied nations.