EM Capital Management LLC and Seth Richard Freeman

Business Builder | Restructuring, Venture Capital & Private Equity

Building Businesses and Fixing Sick Ones, Startup Accelerator, Event Speaker & Bloomberg/CNBC Contributor, Emerging Markets & Global Restructuring Expert

EM Capital Management LLC and Seth Richard Freeman's Bio:

Seth R. Freeman is a co-founder and CEO of EM Capital Management, LLC, an emerging and frontier markets specialist founded in 2005.  Investment experience includes sponsoring, organizing and managing emerging markets investment strategies including registered mutual funds, hedge funds, separate accounts, private equity and real estate.  Seth has deep India, South Asia, China and Mexico expertise. Headquarters in San Francisco with affiliates and senior professionals located in Shenzen/Hong Kong, Boston, New Delhi, Mumbai, and Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). Seth's firm has the unique specialty of emerging and frontier markets Socially Responsible (SRI) and Impact investing that incorporates ESG factors in investment decisions, monitoring and reporting. (See: http://www.unpri.org)  He is presently pursuing Impact-oriented socially responsible investments and projects in China and India. Seth's wide range of professional experience and developing markets expertise provides his clients and partners a highly effective, trusted resource and colleague for initiating, executing and managing a wide range of complex cross-border financial markets, private equity investments and fiducuiary and restructuring opportunities (and their related challenges and often, distress) as principal, partner and/or advisor. Specialties: Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor (CIRA). Over twenty five years experience in corporate and real estate finance, asset-based financing, corporate restructuring, insolvency advising and turnaround management. Special expertise in international and cross-border situations and emerging markets. Professional fiduciary, litigation support and expert witness services. Seth is a Frequent contributor on major business news channels and sought after speaker for professional events.  He holds a certificate from the California Legislature Ethics Committee course on ethical issues and laws related to lobbying and is qualified to serve as a registered lobbyist to the California Legislature on behalf of his international clients. He holds a California real estate broker's license and is a licensed general contractor and sheet metal contractor.

EM Capital Management LLC and Seth Richard Freeman's Experience:

  • Seth Richard Freeman, Chief Executive Officer at EM Capital Management, LLC

    2005 - Present | San Francisco, CA

    Co-founder of EM Capital Management, a global asset manager specializing in alternative assets and emerging and frontier markets. Leading advocates of incorporating ESG factors into the investment process. We create innovative emerging and frontier markets investment strategies and products, tax-efficient structures and on-going investment implementation, monitoring and reporting. Seth is fundamentally a hands-on serial entrepreneur with over 35 years of complex business start-ups and restructuring experience and the unique ability to effectively communicate his valuable knowledge of all aspects of business strategy, marketing, operations and finance. His fee-based professional counsel consistently reduces execution risks and enhances measurable outcomes. EM Capital Management provides investment management on a discretionary and non-discretionary basis and sponsors collective investments (funds) for qualified investors and separate accounts. The firm's focus is exclusively emerging and frontier markets with over a decade of experience in India, licensed to invest up to own up to 10% of equity of listed Indian companies. The firm is licensed to invest in Vietnam and is expanding its tax-efficient platform for investing into Africa and South Asia countries such as Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Seth Freeman is a frequent contributor on business news television channels such as Bloomberg TV, CNBC, CNBC Awaaz, NDTV-Profit, ET Now (Reuters India) and publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters and business press in India. He is a frequent speaker at professional conferences and MBA programs at Wharton, Harvard, University of Chicago Booth, NYU Stern, Thunderbird, Columbia, UC Berkeley Haas and Georgetown. http://www.btvin.com/videos/watch/5739/%E2%80%9Cmodi-successful-in-attracting-fiis%E2%80%9D http://www.btvin.com/videos/watch/4346/need-clarity-on-future-policies:-em-cap-mgmt The firm is a signatory to the UN Principles of Responsible Investing and the UN Global Compact (http://www.UNglobalcompact.org) recently served as "Lead Investor India" for the Emerging Markets Disclosure Project (EMDP) and is a member of US Social Investment Forum (http://www.USSIF.org) and an Executive in Residence of the Thunderbird Financial Services Center (http://www.thunderbird.edu).

  • Seth Richard Freeman, Chief Executive Officer at EM Capital Global Advisors - Restructuring & Insolvency Services

    1996 - Present | San Francisco and Global

    Serving international investors, creditors, boards and their legal and accounting professionals with complex and often troubled cross-border investments, real property, operating companies and financial crisis situations requiring confidential, time-sensitive mobilization and rapid response. Engagements are staffed by a proprietary team of experienced, highly effective U.S. and foreign senior consultants and operating and financial experts at rates substantially below Big Four accounting firms. - Court appointed Financial Advisor in Chapter 11 bankruptcies - Assignee under General Assignment for Benefit of Creditors (ABC) of an AMEX listed consumer products company - Financial Advisor for U.S. limited partners of a failed cross-border investment, conducted international fraud examination, managed securities fraud litigation, provided testimony and obtained $5,300,000 Federal District Court verdict against General Partner - Interim CEO of insolvent toy company, managed creditors and created new products, reducing direct costs by 35%. Led to highest historical holiday sales and return to solvency. - Variety of real estate-related property turnarounds and workouts and dispositions - Interim senior financial, strategic and operating management Typical engagements include financial statement reviews and restatements, risk management and compliance; confidential, sub rosa or disclosed due diligence investigations; fraud investigations; forensic examinations, litigation support; interim senior management and court-appointed fiduciary services designed to maximize recovery, asset disposition or other agreed objectives.

EM Capital Management LLC and Seth Richard Freeman's Education:

  • Palisades High School, Los Angeles, CA

    1974 – 1975
    Diploma with Honors

  • American School Foundation, Mexico City

    1972 – 1974
    Concentration: High School

  • Thunderbird School of Global Management

    Master of Business Administration (International MBA)
    Concentration: International Finance & Marketing Emphasis

  • Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga, CA

    BA, Management

  • University of California, Santa Barbara

    Concentration: Political Economy
    Activities: Scholars Program

EM Capital Management LLC and Seth Richard Freeman's Interests & Activities:

Family, travel, cross-cultural experiences, friends and negotiation; serving on boards; solving complex problems; TV contributor and speaking / teaching. Scuba