Cairdrow Capital | Private Markets Advisory, Singapore

About Cairdrow Capital

A Different Kind of Capital Partner

Cairdrow Capital is a specialized investment and advisory firm dedicated to guiding family offices and institutions through the complexities of alternative investments. Founded in 2025 and operating globally, we bridge institutional discipline with family office agility.

We work with family offices and institutions on questions of strategy, deployment and ongoing stewardship. We surface off-market opportunities through a curated global network built over decades and develop bespoke investments alongside world-class operating partners and co-investors.

Cairdrow blends principal investing with aligned advice, giving families and institutions a single point of access for origination, structuring, and ongoing portfolio stewardship.

Focus Real Estate & Private Markets

Clients Family Offices & Institutions

Reach Global, with Deep Asia Expertise

Alignment Aligned Engagement Throughout The Investment Lifecycle

What We Do

Capital allocation and strategy

Where private capital should flow, which strategies deserve weight, and how a portfolio of alternative investments should be built and held.

Selection and structuring

Evaluating managers, operating partners and individual opportunities, and structuring, negotiating and tracking the investments that follow.

Stewardship and principal investment

Governance and oversight through the life of an investment, and our own capital alongside where appropriate.

Our Approach

Built on Three Principles

Proprietary Sourcing

Through decades of senior relationships cultivated across Asia, Europe, North America, and key global markets, we access transactions that rarely surface through conventional channels. Our deal flow is relationship-driven and off-market, not intermediary-dependent.

Aligned Interests

Our business model is built around engagements linked to outcomes rather than hours. We succeed when our partners succeed. We operate over multi-year horizons, with relationships built to last beyond any single transaction cycle. Where appropriate, we invest our own capital alongside clients, reflecting a genuine alignment of economic interest.

Operational Expertise

Our team brings hands-on operating experience at the most senior levels of global asset management. We are frequently engaged post-acquisition to provide direct operational oversight, leveraging multi-decade expertise to deliver alpha well beyond the point of transaction.

Leadership

The Team

Stuart Mercier

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Stuart is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Cairdrow Capital, a Singapore-headquartered private markets consultancy and advisory firm serving family offices and institutions. He is also an Independent Non-executive Director and a member of the Audit and Risk Committee of Shui On Land Limited.

Prior to Cairdrow, Stuart was a Managing Partner at Brookfield Asset Management, where he was the founding Head of Real Estate in Asia and led approximately US$15 billion of investment and financing activity alongside the buildout of operating platforms across the region. He also served as Country Head for China and later for Singapore, with responsibility for in-country investment, institutional relationships and regulatory engagement, in addition to serving as Head of Strategic Initiatives for Brookfield's global property group.

Stuart holds a BA from Bishop's University in Canada and an MBA from the University of Hong Kong and London Business School, where he was awarded the New Generation of Leaders scholarship. In 2023, he received the Silver Magnolia Award from the Shanghai Government for his contributions to the financial services industry. He is a ULI Global Trustee, Co-Chair of the Singapore Capital Markets Committee and Executive Committee Member of ULI Singapore, and a past board member of the Canada-China Business Council.

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Greg Crowe

Co-Founder

Greg Crowe is a Co-Founder of Cairdrow Capital and a senior family office and asset allocation professional with over 15 years of experience advising principals, managing family office capital, and building global private market portfolios. His career has been shaped by long-term capital stewardship, direct investing, and the cultivation of trusted partnerships across family offices, institutional investors, and asset managers in Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

Earlier in his career, Greg held senior roles within the family office of a leading Hong Kong based family. He was responsible for investment strategy, building and leading the investment team, and restructuring the office from a direct investment model to one focused on asset management and co-investments. During this period, Greg developed a diversified alternatives portfolio with a strong emphasis on US-based opportunities and built extensive deal-sourcing networks across the United States and Asia, including leading several joint venture projects with other family offices and institutions.

Greg is currently seconded as Head of Capital Formation at Omni Bridgeway, the world's leading asset manager in legal assets, where he oversees the firm's global capital-raising strategy and maintains senior-level relationships with family offices and institutional investors. He also serves in several advisory and director capacities across the investment management industry.

What's in a Name

A Name Rooted in History

Cairdrow is a portmanteau of two names that shaped history: James Caird and John Quiller Rowett, the financiers who made Ernest Shackleton's great Antarctic expeditions possible. Men who backed a founder and visionary without flinching from risk, at a time when the outcome was far from certain.

The name carries a deeper metaphor. Shackleton named his rescue lifeboat the James Caird, and it was that small craft that carried him and five crew 800 miles across the Southern Ocean, saving every member of the expedition. Great investing requires both the courage to take risk and the discipline to prepare for adversity.

Strength. Endurance. Fellowship.
Ernest Shackleton

At Cairdrow Capital, we believe those same qualities define the relationships that endure.

James Caird

Financier and philanthropist who funded Shackleton's Endurance expedition (1914). Shackleton named the rescue lifeboat in his honour.

John Quiller Rowett

Merchant and explorer who financed Shackleton's final Quest expedition (1921), backing the man long after the initial glory had faded.

Contact

Get in Touch

We welcome enquiries from family office principals and their investment teams, institutions, and prospective operating partners.

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Proprietary Access. Principal Alignment. Operational Alpha.