BUSINESS PHILOSOPHY

 

Champion’s consistent investment success is attributed to six key factors that comprise its overall business philosophy:

 

  • Nimble Investment Strategies

    Champion has developed an excellent reputation for implementing successful investment and operating strategies at the very beginning of a particular market cycle or trend. Furthermore, the firm has consistently shown the ability to adapt its operating and investment strategies to monetize asset values and exit/sell as certain cycles and trends mature, while simultaneously shifting into new and emerging opportunities.

  • Active Buy-Sell Approach

    Champion strongly believes in having an active buy-sell approach within an ever-changing portfolio of real estate assets. Once certain value-creation events or thresholds are achieved for an asset, it is then typically sold or recapitalized. Champion targets investments with value-creation time horizons and holding periods typically ranging from two to five years.

  • Equity Joint Ventures

    Champion has significant expertise and a proven track record in structuring successful joint venture transactions with large-scale institutional investors and smaller private equity firms. By utilizing joint venture equity, Champion has the ability to invest in larger asset/property transactions, while still maintaining appropriate levels of risk-profile diversification.

  • Capital Markets Expertise

    Champion closely tracks the debt and equity markets and has successfully completed a variety of complex real estate capital transactions. Champion uses this expertise to pursue the optimal capital structure for each investment and to sell at the appropriate time, all with a goal of maximizing risk-adjusted equity returns.

  • Long-Term Relationship Focus

    Nationally and within various sectors and disciplines of the real estate industry, Champion has developed extensive relationships that generate attractive business opportunities, including sourcing investment transactions, acquiring properties, identifying joint venture partners, providing debt capital, and securing leasing, management and other services.

  • Efficient Operating and Management Structure

    Champion has an efficient operating and management structure, with a focus on proactive asset management. This structure includes hiring third parties to perform property-level activities, thereby allowing Champion to engage the best-suited firms for each investment and to properly incentivize them to produce attractive operating results. With this approach, Champion retains maximum corporate flexibility with decisions to purchase or dispose of assets being unencumbered by internal employee/staffing issues.