Founded by Viktor Derkach in Dallas, Derkache Investments is a vertically integrated real estate investment and management company based in Dallas, Texas. Through our family of real estate fund vehicles, we acquire real estate assets, either directly or indirectly, by investing at various levels of the capital stack. We seek to invest in real estate assets at a cost-advantageous basis and drive value through a focus on operations and cash-flow management. We attribute our success to our ability to invest opportunistically and to assume the role of both investor and operator, across all asset classes and stages of the economic cycle.
Our team of professionals possesses the ability to source, analyze, develop, operate, and exit an investment from start to finish. With investments in Dallas Forth Worth and Toronto markets we have a combined experience in real estate exceeding 50 years, covering the real estate finance, construction, development, property management, private equity, and hedge fund industries.
We have experience negotiating through and structuring around complex, special situations. In fact, we thrive in these situations and believe outsized returns can be realized with manageable risk through prudent due diligence and structuring. We have closed transactions involving financially constrained developers, complex joint ventures, special servicers, banks, and other financial institutions, acquiring fee simple real estate, performing and non-performing notes, bonds, and other real estate-related securities. Our ability to perform extensive due diligence on, understand, and appropriately structure complex, special situations gives us a significant competitive advantage.
We have built a reputation as an honest partner and fiduciary in our market and pride ourselves on negotiating in good faith, providing full disclosure of our information sources and strategic partners. We continue to maintain this reputation with our partners and associates through the act of negotiating, structuring, operating, and building in good faith.
Further, we believe that partnering with the right people can bring value-added components to specific transactions that benefit our investors. Our reputation has allowed us to develop relationships that will be beneficial to us for years to come. Today, we continue to advance our relationships with home builders, developers, leasing experts, general contractors, financial institutions, lawyers, accountants, and other major players in the Texas market.