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Oak Hill Advisors

One Vanderbilt, 16th Floor, New York, 10017, United States

Overview

Oak Hill Advisors is an alternative credit manager that specializes in leveraged loans, high yield bonds, and structured products, distressed securities, and turnaround investments. The firm’s investment activities are focused on the North American and European markets. With approximately $21.5 billion of capital as of February 2014, it manages distressed funds, credit hedge funds, customized accounts, and other specialty credit funds. Oak Hill Advisors employs a fundamental value-oriented strategy focused on credit analysis, relative value, and active risk management that has been in place for more than two decades. The firm invests on behalf of investors globally, including pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, foundations, endowments, funds of funds, and family offices.

Total investments
3
Lead investments
2
Investments · 12mo
2
Active investors
9

Sector focus

  • Financial Services
  • Hedge Funds
  • Impact Investing
  • Personal Finance
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Investment portfolio

  • LiveOak Fiber

    Led · Debt Financing · Apr 2026

    LiveOak Fiber operates an all-fiber broadband network serving communities in Florida and Georgia, offering high-speed, low-latency internet to residential, business and multi-tenant customers. The company emphasizes a local operating model with full-time local teams handling installation, support and community engagement. LiveOak reports creating over 150 local jobs, being certified as a Great Place to Work, and operating a network it describes as 99.99% reliable. The company positions itself to scale across customer types and to expand its footprint through continued build-out activity. Management framed the new capital as enabling accelerated expansion into existing and planned Southeast markets. No revenue, valuation, or founding year were disclosed in the announcement.

  • Resilience

    Led · Debt Financing · Oct 2025

    Resilience is a technology-driven contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) that partners with biopharma innovators to bring biologics, cell-based therapies, and other complex medicines to market more efficiently. The company is actively expanding a North American manufacturing network with end-to-end capabilities in sterile injectable production, device assembly, and packaging. Its Cincinnati site is undergoing a major build-out that is expected to become one of the continent’s largest and most advanced sterile injectable operations, while its Toronto facility anchors additional growth. Resilience positions itself to meet rising demand for on-shoring and reliable supply of advanced therapeutics. The firm has recently strengthened its balance sheet by resolving lease obligations tied to underutilized sites, improving overall operational efficiency. The newly secured long-term capital will fund continued facility expansion and help the company serve customers with greater stability and scale.

  • Acrisure

    Participated · Series B · May 2022

    Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Acrisure has evolved from an insurance brokerage into a tech-enabled global fintech provider that bundles insurance, reinsurance, payroll, benefits, cybersecurity, real-estate services and retirement/wealth products. The company leverages AI and data to match small- and medium-sized businesses with customized financial solutions and has executed roughly 900 acquisitions to build out its platform. Over the past eleven years, revenue has grown from $38 million to nearly $5 billion, and the firm now employs more than 19,000 people across 23 countries. Recent executive hires, including a former Intercontinental Exchange COO as CTO and Palantir’s former Global Head of Corporate Development as CAO, underscore its commitment to scaling technology and M&A integration. Going forward, Acrisure plans to deepen product breadth, fully integrate prior acquisitions and pursue additional accretive M&A. Its strategy is to become the pre-eminent fintech partner for millions of SMBs worldwide, leveraging data science for efficient cross-selling and organic growth.

Team

  • Glenn R August

    Founder & Chief Executive Officer

  • Chris Kenny

    Managing Director

  • Robert Okun

    Chief Investment Officer, Senior Partner

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  • William. Bohnsack

    President

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