Founded in 2018 by people from every side of the table.
The partners ran a wealth manager, worked in private banking, invested in private equity, and executed M&A. Every seat showed the same constraint. They built Dark Matter to remove it.
The constraint is almost never the quality of the opportunities.
Good opportunities are not rare. The capacity to act on them is. Every firm we work with generates more sound deals than it can fund, staff, or process.
We watched the missed ones die the same way from every seat we sat in. No process, no partner, no time.
Dark Matter removes that constraint. We supply the process, arrange the capital, and equip the people doing the analysis.
The year we founded Dark Matter in the canton of Zug. The partners who take each mandate run it.
Typical entry point in USD for asset-backed transactions. Single assets and aggregated portfolios.
The ticket range in USD we arrange through institutional joint ventures and co-investment partners.
Our fastest special situation, first contact to signed. Proven partners and precedented structures made the pace.
The part of the system you cannot see and cannot do without.
Dark matter holds the visible structure together without appearing in any of it. The value in most of our situations sits in the same place. Not in the asset on the page, but in the structure around it, the sequencing of the process, and the counterparty nobody thought to call.
Small, senior, and deliberately constrained.
The partners who take the mandate work the mandate.
No layer of associates learns the asset class on your transaction. That is why we run few live mandates at a time, and why we decline work we do not believe will close.
We answer to the capital as well as to you.
We return to the same institutions mandate after mandate. That repeat relationship lets a conversation take days instead of a quarter. It is also why we tell you when an asset is not ready, instead of finding out alongside you.
Everything is written down.
Counterparty lists approved before contact. Weekly written status through the life of a mandate. Fee structure and reasoning stated on the first call. Our clients got burned by the alternative.
Stated plainly, so nobody has to ask awkwardly.
Dark Matter AG is an advisory firm. We arrange, structure, and negotiate institutional capital. We are not a licensed financial institution. We hold no client assets and manage no third-party money on a discretionary basis.
Where a transaction requires regulated activity, we work alongside licensed counterparties and state so in writing at the start of the mandate.
Cham, and wherever the asset is.
Our office sits at Gewerbestrasse 5 in Cham, in the canton of Zug. The assets do not. They stand in valleys, substations, industrial parks, and data halls. The diligence that matters happens standing next to them.
Dark Matter AGGewerbestrasse 5
6330 Cham
Switzerland
Start with a conversation, not a mandate.
Tell us what is on the desk and what the date is. If it is ours, we say so quickly. If it is not, we usually tell you whose it is.