EXCELLENCE IN PARTNERSHIPS
turning challenges into gateways of opportunity
Established in 2002, RAS Capital Partners serves as a distinguished merchant banking platform, dedicated to providing enduring capital solutions and strategic insight primarily to family-owned enterprises and entrepreneurial ventures.
For the past 15 years, RAS Capital Partners has been the cornerstone of transformation in the corporate world. Trusted by clients, boards, and partners alike, we harness our distinct blend of experience, insight, and extensive connections to navigate a diverse spectrum of corporate landscapes, financial complexities, and industry challenges. Our journey has been marked by numerous pioneering roles, both as principals and consultants. Through these roles, we have fortified partnerships, mobilized hundreds of millions for company growth, assembled influential boards, and refined strategic operations, all contributing to the sustainable development of businesses.
Our mission
At RAS Capital Partners, our mission is to fulfill the distinctive aspirations of our family office clients, private investors, and founders. Trust in our services grows from our unwavering dedication to integrity, creativity, and the pursuit of excellence. We provide impartial, impactful, and practical advice that empowers our partners journey’s and ensures the proper capitalization of their visions.
We prioritize enhancing the legacies of those we serve by fostering the growth of their passions, wealth, and brands. At RAS Capital Partners, our goal is to not only achieve the dreams and missions of our clients but to amplify the enduring impact of their endeavors across generations.
r. adam smith: pioneer & visionary leader
Global strategic advisor, author, deal maker, family office expert, financier to private companies. Veteran on board of directors since 2002. Trusted consigliere to single family offices, investors, founders, boards, CEOs. Repeat entrepreneur, board member, founder, general partner, philanthropist.
R. Adam Smith is a leading global expert in private company finance, family offices, and strategy, having served as an investor, advisor, and/or financier to over fifty venture and private equity-backed companies since the mid-1990s.
Adam has participated in several billions of transaction value in his professional career, beginning in 1993, including almost a billion of his own.
Adam is one of the world’s leading family enterprise experts - an expert across many elements of the family firm, family office, and family enterprise global ecosystem. Adam advises elite global single family offices and super entrepreneurs in their investment, strategy, balance sheet, governance and legacy matters. Adam is the founder, creator, and owner of a fast growing digital expert content media company comprised of the Family Business Audiocast (launched 2022) and sister newsletter, Family Business Chronicle (launched 2024) - the platform is now a global leader covering the family enterprise industry.
WHO WE ARE
At RAS Capital Partners, we believe in the power of visionary strategy and robust partnerships to redefine the future. Discover how our commitment to excellence shapes everything we do.