Principal-led investment platform
Investing where sport, media and adjacent real assets create durable enterprise value.
Three Lions Capital is a principal-led platform focused on selective opportunities across the evolving sports asset class and the sectors that move with it.
Affiliations across the principals’ portfolio
Why Three Lions
A firm built at the intersection of capital and operating judgment.
Principal-led
Decisions sit with the partners who make them. Aligned capital, long horizons, and conviction over consensus.
Operating perspective
We have run public companies, owned clubs, and executed at scale — so we partner as operators, not only as capital.
Institutional rigor
Transactional discipline and board-level governance brought to a category often approached on instinct.
Our approach
A thesis, not a trade.
We believe the value created around modern sports — the clubs, the venues, the rights, the brands, and the real assets that anchor them — is becoming an institutional asset class. We invest at that intersection with patience and an operator's eye.
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Source
Proprietary access through ownership networks across sport, media and real assets.
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Underwrite
Disciplined diligence — cash-flow durability, governance, and downside before upside.
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Build
Value created through operations, brand, real estate and network — not financial engineering alone.
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Steward
Long-horizon ownership with clear governance and a defined path to realization.
What we focus on
Four sectors that move with the sports economy.
Sports
Club equity, rights-driven platforms, and the venues and infrastructure that anchor them.
Media & Entertainment
Content, distribution and the commercial value created around live audiences and IP.
Adjacent Real Assets
Stadium-adjacent real estate and development that compounds with the franchise it serves.
Life Sciences
Selective growth exposure where the partners' networks and judgment create an edge.
The principals
Founder-led, operator-aware, globally sports-literate.
Founder and CEO of Benevolent Capital, a private-equity and family-office platform investing across sport, real estate, consumer brands and venture. A recognized pioneer of sport as an asset class, with ownership and board roles spanning Rhode Island FC, Phoenix Rising FC and Ipswich Town FC, and stadium-anchored developments including Tidewater Landing.
- Brown University, B.A.
- Pepperdine University, MBA
- Harvard Business School, PLP
Selected experience
Operators, owners, and allocators.
Representative of the principals' publicly disclosed affiliations across sport and real assets. Provided as background on the team's experience — not as an indication of fund performance.
Phoenix Rising FC
Founding ownership
USL Championship club, Arizona
Ipswich Town FC
Ownership & board
English football, Suffolk
Rhode Island FC
Founding & board
USL Championship club
Tidewater Landing
Development
Stadium-anchored district, Pawtucket
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