Oysters 4 Eight LP (the ‘Fund’), is a Limited Partnership, a flow through entity for tax purposes. Our focus is the take private of public companies that we believe will thrive better as private entities rather that as public ones, a methodical mix of long (sometimes short) public investments, with an orientation towards liquidity, value and momentum, primarily US public companies, including ADRs, which have strong cash balances, modest debt levels and introduce deep value-based investment opportunities, for short, medium and longer term gains. We are patient capital but remain opportunistic to ensure good entry values and actively short names we deem extremely overvalued lacking fundamentals, sufficient cash balances. We have an orientation towards biosciences, software, innovation, energy and technology.

We use put and call options modestly to support investment themes and manage downside risks. We work to ensure the Fund has good cash balances at any given time, to take advantages of disruptions and macro events when they occur ... and may take short term material gains to provide sufficient cash balances to ensure opportunistic trading opportunities can be capitalized upon. We ensure we are not over concentrated in any one name or sector. We are active in and with our portfolio names. We remain oriented to earning our returns based on performance fees and not management fees. We combine systematic and non-systematic trends in our decision making, looking at market events and company specific factors in our decision-making process. We are oriented to value-based fundamentals. With any private investments we steer away from SAFE Notes with no ‘valuation caps’ as we are not 'lenders'. We seek proper return profiles to warrant the risk taken and like to know there will be a liquidity events within 1-2 years of making a private investment.

With privates we do not focus on a particular series of investment but rather gravitate towards 10x return profiles weighing the risks against the return potential, often investing in later round/series of financing where we see a 10x return profile, but better risk profiles. We may own an investment for a few minutes/days or years. Each situation is analyzed on its own merits in context of the investment and the overall portfolio.

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We like breakthrough, innovative technologies, applications and businesses that will help transform many aspects of our society, the way we interact with our environment, various products/services and how we conduct our regular daily affairs. With disruption, change occurs quickly and its’ magnitude can be staggering and exciting. Nascent industries/technologies will offer first-movers, entrepreneurs and investors alike, a myriad of opportunities. We also like well known and established names, that for various reasons, at any given time, may offer deep discounted entry points. We take advantage of these events and may hold these names for a short period of time, for the short-term gains, … or longer period of time, depending on the macro and specific micro economic situations and conditions. The Fund is a flow through entity, for accredited investors. 

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Oysters 4 Eight LP will partner/form a strategic buyout syndicate, for various buyout/take private efforts and design an effective board of directors to guide and direct the company into its next phase of meaningful growth and value creation. Ideally, we support existing management in management buyout efforts where being a public company holds little value and distracts form meaningful enterprise value creation.

We need to be able to buy deep value stock on the open market to effectuate a buyout effort. Our daily trading activities present many buyout opportunities we evaluate constantly. We follow meaningful alpha opportunities in the context of risk/reward. In some cases, we may not effectuate the buyout rather deciding to exit or partially exit the opportunity, … if we perceive a loss of deep value opportunity.

Each opportunity requires good liquidity. Exits typically take the form of a strategic sale or future go public transaction. We constantly invite Limited Partners to participate pro-rata in any special purpose vehicles we create, where the need arises.

Our public trading activities are focused primarily on NASDAQ listed companies and we tend to hold no more than 10-25 positions at any one time. We have no management fee, preferring instead to get compensated based on performance and not fees. Our structure is a flow through entity for tax purposes with annual tax compliance forms provided to Limited Partners in March/April each year.

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Our books, records, trading account is open for review by Limited Partners at any time and upon request. Audit is done annually unless waived by the Limited Partners.