Company: PAX
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-025640
Chunk: 144

Company: Patria Investments Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-05-15
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 144
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, infrastructure, credit, real estate sectors, fixed income instruments (private and public credit) and public equities and in fund distribution, including certain funds managed by third parties. Our asset management business competes with a number of private equity funds, specialized investment funds, hedge funds, funds of hedge funds and other sponsors managing pools of capital, as well as corporate buyers, traditional asset managers, commercial banks, investment banks and other financial institutions (including sovereign wealth funds). We compete on the basis of a number of factors, including investment performance, transaction execution skills, access to capital, access to and retention of qualified personnel, reputation, range of products and services, innovation and price.

In our asset management business, we compete with a larger number of financial institutions and asset managers which, in some cases, have much larger amounts of assets under management or offer a more diverse variety of financial products. We face competition both in the pursuit of outside investors for our investment funds and in acquiring investments in attractive portfolio companies and making other investments. Although many institutional and individual investors have increased the amount of capital they commit to alternative investment funds, such increases may create increased competition with respect to fees charged by our funds. Certain institutional and other sophisticated investors have demonstrated a preference to in-source their own investment professionals and to make direct investments in alternative assets without the assistance of private equity or public equity advisers like us. We compete for investments with such institutional investors and such institutional investors could cease to be our clients.

Depending on the investment, we face competition primarily from sponsors managing other funds, investment vehicles and other pools of capital, other financial institutions and institutional investors (including sovereign wealth and pension funds), corporate buyers and other parties. Several of these competitors have significant amounts of capital and many of them have investment objectives similar to ours, which may create additional competition for investment opportunities. Some of these competitors may also have a lower cost of capital and access to funding sources or other resources that are not available to us, which may create competitive disadvantages for us with respect to investment opportunities. In addition, some of these competitors may have higher risk tolerances, different risk assessments or lower return thresholds, which could allow them to consider a wider variety of investments and to bid more aggressively than us for investments. Corporate buyers may be able to achieve synergistic cost savings with regard to an investment or be perceived by sellers as otherwise being more desirable bidders, which may provide them with a competitive advantage in bidding for an investment.

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