Nelson Mullins partner Hendrik Jordaan was recently quoted in a Dakota News article examining the growing role of direct investing among family offices.

The article noted a modest increase in family office direct investment activity in May, with 53 transactions tracked worldwide. The total deal value reached $79.44 billion, driven largely by Anthropic's landmark funding round. Amid these trends, Jordaan said the shift toward direct investing shows no signs of slowing.

“Unequivocally, there's a huge push towards more direct investment, and that is going to continue," Jordaan told Dakota News.

Jordaan also observed that family offices have evolved into increasingly sophisticated investors. "Family offices have built out highly sophisticated, private equity-like investment teams that take the best practices from how PE sources deals, underwrites deals, develops execution plans, and manages assets — and they're doing so with an unfair competitive advantage."

You may read the full article here.