Overview
General Description of Advisory Firm
Southern Equity Advisors LLC (“SEA”) is a U.S. Virgin Islands limited liability company formed
on 09/13/2021. SEA is a privately held company with its principal place of business in St. Thomas,
USVI. SEA is owned entirely by Allen Nance.
SEA provides discretionary investment management services to privately offered pooled
investment vehicles, exempt from registration as an “investment company” pursuant to either
Section 3(C)(1) or 3(C)(7) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “Company Act”) (each, a
“Private Fund”, and collectively, the “Private Funds”). Each Private Fund is managed in
accordance with their respective investment objectives, guidelines and limitations. SEA also
provides investment management services to single-investor private funds (hereinafter the Private
Funds and single-investor private funds are collectively referred to as “Clients” or, collectively, as
“Private Funds”). SEA also provides discretionary investment management services to certain
special purpose vehicles (“SPVs”) whereby co-investment opportunities are offered to investors
and other potential contacts of SEA’s.
Private Funds
The differing investment management services provided by SEA are typically provided on a
discretionary basis (although under limited circumstances SEA may enter into a non-discretionary
agreement with a Client). SEA serves as investment manager to the Private Funds, and its affiliates
serve as general partner or Managing Member to the Private Funds organized as Delaware limited
partnerships or limited liability companies or Cayman Islands exempt limited partnerships.
While determining the specific investment partnership to form, SEA typically identifies major
economic and investment themes that are prevalent over the intermediate term. SEA then performs
due diligence and research to identify specific investments in an attempt to exploit the identified
investment opportunities for optimum return potential and then structures a private investment
limited partnership to provide qualified clients access to the Private Fund if/when/as deemed
appropriate to benefit from the identified investment theme.
Generally, the SEA investment strategies are deployed via Private Funds as follows:
1. Private Equity investments structured as pooled
investment vehicles/SPVs (“Direct
Private Funds”) in which SEA invests in either privately-owned growth companies
directly or via subscriptions to other unaffiliated Private Funds. These are typically
proprietary investment opportunities and identified as a single investment strategies.
In addition, extra capacity for any of these investments may be offered to existing
investors via a co-investment structure.
2. Closed-end venture capital funds (“VC Funds”), in which SEA invests the VC Fund’s
assets in privately-held seed and early stage software and technology companies. The
VC Funds typically invest initially through a convertible note and then participate in a
future round of financing, if raised, led by another investor. After a VC Fund’s
Investment Period, a portion of the invested capital may be recycled from VC Fund
profits for use in additional follow-on investments if returned during the Investment
Period.
3. Open-end private credit funds (“PC Funds”), in which the PC Funds provide senior
secured credit (“loans”) structured as asset-backed credit facilities. The PC Funds have
extended credit to online consumer lending businesses (“FinTechs”) including
Sovereign Lenders, as well as other loans, opportunistic credit instruments, or forms of
debt. The primary focus of the PC Funds is on structuring credit against secured assets
and perfecting collateral with a security interest, Deposit Account Control Agreements
(DACAs) and filing Uniform Commerical Code (UCC) liens in appropriate
jurisdictions.
4. Real Estate Funds (“RE Funds”) focused on supporting the development of new
construction as well as holding existing assets with current cash flows.
The Private Funds are offered to investors who are qualified clients and accredited investors,
including high net worth individuals, banks, thrift institutions, trusts, estates, charitable
organizations, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, endowments and other corporations. SEA
provides investment advice directly to the Private Funds and does not tailor its advice to individual
investors in the Private Funds.
Wrap Fee Programs
SEA does not participate in wrap fee programs.
Assets Under Management
Since this is our initial filing, SEA does not have assets under management to report at this time.