About Us

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Past success has allowed us to build a network of deep relationships across the industry, allowing the firm to source assets directly, discreetly, and with exclusivity. Cambridge Lansdowne has a strong origination capacity and focuses on situations where specialization matters and competition for deals is limited.

The partners have extensive experience investing across the capital structure in a variety of asset types and bring a proven ability to understand and underwrite complex situations in the US, Europe and Latam. Our ability to execute on complex transactions quickly and intelligently gives us an advantage over our peers. We are the preferred investor for many sellers and brokers, as a result of our track record and experience, which well positions us against the competition.


INVESTMENT STRATEGY

We focus primarily on control-oriented equity and debt investments in cash flow generating, asset-based businesses in the United State. We are value-oriented investors seeking situations where significant value can be unlocked. To secure the best investments, we take a flexible approach to evaluate situations that may be overlooked by other firms due to size, complexity, or negative market sentiment.

Cambridge Lansdowne aims to continue creating value by sourcing and structuring valuable niche opportunities and realizing superior value through operational improvements, asset repositioning and balance sheet restructuring. Importantly, the strategy does not require a distressed macro environment to invest successfully, relying instead on special situations that can be uncovered in any property, portfolio or market at any point in the economic cycle.

We focus on assets with competitive advantages in their markets, typically unique opportunities with an ability to be independently managed. We partner with world-class firms for underwriting and operations, bringing outsized expertise to our markets.

Our Team

Pedro Miranda
Co-Founding Partner

Pedro is the co-founder and managing partner of Cambridge Landmark, a hotel investment company with over 2550 rooms in the US. He was founder and CEO of Itacare Capital, the first UK-listed REIT (LSE: ITA) focused on Brazilian real estate, for 9 years before he took it private. Previously, he was a director at Dolphin Capital (LSE: DCI) a real estate fund with over $1 billion under management and seeded by Fortress Investment Group. He was a vice-president at Edison Advisors (GE Capital) and an M&A investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston and Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Mr. Miranda is a member of YPO Global One, the MIT Corporation Development Committee and Marriott’s Sheraton Advisory Board. He holds a dual B.S. degree in Computer Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Miami and an MBA in Finance from the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Daniel Ribenboim Simon
Co-Founding Partner

Daniel has almost 20 years of experience in financial and capital markets. He is founding member of Milenio Capital and portfolio manager of credit at Newfoundland Capital. Within that capacity, Mr. Simon oversaw ~$250MM of complex credits, which were primarily sourced and structured by My. Simon and his team. Previously, he was head of JPMorgan’s illiquids, infrastructure and structured credit platform for Latin America. With over 10 years at the firm, he was also a principal of its Brazilian hedge fund, Gavea Investimentos with a focus on structured credits. He was also a founding member of Highbridge Principal Strategies as a Vice President focused on mezzanine debt and equity investments. Collectively, Mr. Simon has overseen and structured well over $1.5 billion of credit transactions. He previously worked with Snow Phipps & Guggenheim, a middle market focused private equity fund. He also worked in the project finance and fixed income groups of Citibank and also has experience with Merrill Lynch. Mr. Simon holds a B.S. in finance and accounting from Boston College.