FIRSTavenue Expands Leadership Team with Appointment of Jeff Davis as Partner and Head of the Americas

February 2025

NEW YORK, 26 February 2025—FIRSTavenue, a leading global independent placement and advisory firm, announced today that veteran placement agent Jeff Davis has joined the Firm as Partner, Head of the Americas and Global Head of Origination. Mr. Davis will be based in FIRSTavenue’s New York City office.

Paul Buckley, FIRSTavenue’s Founding and Managing Partner commented:“Jeff represents FIRSTavenue’s latest investment in our global franchise and particularly in our North American business. We look forward to leveraging Jeff’s GP and LP connectivity to further scale our primary fundraising and secondary advisory capabilities. Jeff adds deep industry knowledge, a global network of relationships, and significant experience across the private equity, real assets and private credit asset classes”.

Mr. Davis has over 30 years of financial services experience, of which 21 years have been spent in private funds placement and advisory. He was previously a Partner and Head of North American Origination at Mercury Capital Advisors. Prior, he was a Partner and Head of Private Credit and Private Equity at FirstPoint Equity Capital. Earlier, he was a Partner at Eaton Partners, where he spent sixteen years across origination, project management and distribution. At Eaton, he also launched and headed Eaton’s successful Private Credit practice. Mr. Davis enjoyed complementary roles earlier in his career as an LP at Capital Dynamics and as a GP at GE Capital (Equity). He began his finance career in 1994 in investment management at Bankers Trust followed by real estate investment banking at Deutsche Bank.

Jeff Davis commented: “FIRSTavenue has a strong and global track record of representing highly differentiated and best-in-class alternative offerings. The current dislocation in the placement industry presents an opportunity to grow global primary and secondaries origination and scale and deepen FIRSTavenue’s Americas platform. I am very excited to join such an impressive platform and an accomplished team of talented placement specialists.”

About FIRSTavenue

FIRSTavenue is a leading independent global placement agent and advisory firm specialising in private credit, real assets, private equity and associated capital solutions. Over the last ten years, FIRSTavenue has raised more than $100 billion of capital commitments on behalf of its clients. The firm maintains a global presence and a team of fifty professionals across its offices in London, New York, Hong Kong, Hamburg and Delhi.

FAP USA, L.P. is a member FINRA/SIPC. For more information on FIRSTavenue, please visit www.firstavenue.com

For further information, please contact:

Paul Buckley

Managing Partner

+44 7894 094872

pbuckley@firstavenue.com

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