Cedars Hill Group was founded by Josh Myers, CFA to serve a broad array of clients. Josh’s experience building large investment portfolios, leading high-performing teams, running operating businesses, and advising clients led him to start Cedars Hill Group to be an independent advisor whose primary mission is to enable clients to make efficient decisions and grow wealth. Led by Josh and his extensive network of relationships, Cedars Hill Group advises institutional clients such as Broker Dealers, Hedge Funds, Investment Banks, Insurance Companies, Banks, State Funds, Private Equity Funds, Real Estate Funds, etc. in the following areas:
Some representative transactions that Josh has led or participated in are:
- Strategic Business Development
- Research & Forecasting
- Process & Operational Improvement
- Project Management
- Strategic Partnerships
- Capital Introduction
- Portfolio Advisory
- Strategy & Structuring
- Security Analysis (Public and Private)
- Risk Measurement & Analysis
- Independent Valuation & Evaluation
- Research & Forecasting
- Acquisitions & Dispositions
- Investment Advisory: Can perform the following functions for fixed income and equity securities (public and private), derivatives (listed and OTC), structured products (asset and mortgage-backed securities, credit-linked notes, MTNs), real estate, and commodities
- Sourcing
- Due Diligence
- Underwriting
- Structuring
- Execution & Management
- Bankruptcies, Restructurings, and Workouts
Some representative transactions that Josh has led or participated in are:
- Two conversions of closed-end funds to open-end funds
- Implemented Variable Annuity Hedging Strategy Utilizing OTC Equity Derivatives
- Mezzanine debt takeover of $3 billion Stuyvesant-Peter Cooper Village Loan
- CDO/CLO Liquidations and Unwinds
- Public and Private Portfolio dispositions
- Stalking horse bidder for Texas Pellets 363 sale
- $200mm Media & Entertainment Capital Raise
- $900mm sale of privately-owned consumer products business to a publicly traded company
- Two conventional oil & gas acquisitions
- CMBS Purchase Options exercised to purchase Commercial Real Estate
- Primary market CMBS syndication
- Management of $7 billion investment portfolio
- $50mm disposition of controlling stock positions
- Development of RIA platform with $100mm of AUM
- $150mm acquisition of Biomass Production Facility
- Execution of 20-year take-or-pay off-take agreement for Biomass with US and Japanese customers