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About

Overseeing a portfolio of legacy direct investments in sports.

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INVESTED IN SPORTS

Graham Sports Partners oversees a portfolio of legacy direct investments in sports and related media and entertainment services, principally in soccer.

The Graham family has been investing and operating within soccer for over three decades, with legacy investments today in six diversified soccer verticals. With the formation of GSP, Graham plans to expand into additional sports, focusing on three broad categories: adult and youth amateur sports, professional sports, and sports adjacencies (mainly third-party solution providers).

Today, the Graham Group is comprised of eight investment entities and dozens of operating companies, managing a combination of third-party institutional capital and Graham family capital. Collectively, the Grahams own controlling or substantial direct equity stakes in over three dozen operating businesses spanning industries that range from sports to industrial technologies, advanced manufacturing, software development, health care, and education.

Investment Approach & Criteria

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Bringing Value to Our Portfolio Companies
and Co-Investment Partners

GSP is pursuing investment opportunities in the rapidly evolving sports ecosystem, expanding from soccer into additional sports, media and entertainment investments in three target categories: adult and youth amateur sports, professional sports, and sports adjacencies (mainly third-party solution providers).

Sector Experience

Graham’s investment team is complemented by senior operating partners with sector expertise in sports and functional operational experts from the broader Graham Group, all focused on delivering hands-on support to our portfolio company management teams.

Talent Development

Our past success includes defining the Philadelphia Union’s competitive strategy and building the highly regarded Union Academy from a pure start-up to the top-tier player development program in North America. This expertise is transferable across franchises, leagues, and organizations.

Disciplined Investing

We seek to invest in growing, cash-flow-positive businesses, where a sustainable competitive advantage exists for the target company. We hope to bring strong operational disciplines to our portfolio companies, delivering a larger, stronger, more profitable, and better-managed asset to the next owner.

THE GRAHAM GROUP

Operations & Investment Experience

Collectively, the Grahams own controlling or substantial direct equity stakes in over three dozen operating businesses spanning industries that range from sports to industrial technologies, advanced manufacturing, software development, healthcare, and education.

Investment Entity

Strategy