target would be determined by our board of directors based upon one or more standards generally accepted by the financial community, such as actual and potential sales, earnings, cash flow and/or book value, discounted cash flow valuation or value of comparable businesses. We can provide no assurances that our management team’s expertise will guarantee a successful initial business combination. In addition, our management team is not required to devote a significant or certain amount of time to our businesses and our management team is currently devoting time to, and is involved with, other businesses.
Our Sponsor, Recent SPAC Experience, Board of Directors and Team Members
Cartesian Capital Group
Our sponsor is an affiliate of Cartesian Capital Group, LLC, or Cartesian, a global private equity firm and registered investment adviser headquartered in New York City, New York. Cartesian has extensive experience providing growth capital to companies around the world. Since its inception in 2006, Cartesian has managed more than $3 billion in committed capital. Cartesian was founded by Peter Yu, who previously founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of AIG Capital Partners, Inc., or AIGCP, a leading international private equity firm with over $4.5 billion in committed capital.
Cartesian’s team currently consists of 23 professionals, who together have more than 300 years of international private equity experience. Collectively, the Cartesian team has executed more than 55 market-leading investments across 30 countries. Over the years, the Cartesian team has developed an extensive network of relationships, particularly in North America, Europe, South America, and Asia, and an established record of innovative and opportunistic investing, consistent discipline, and significant value creation for all stakeholders.
We believe our team has the required analytic, financial, and operational expertise to complete a successful initial business combination and generate attractive risk-adjusted returns for our shareholders.
Recent SPAC Experience
In December 2020, members of our management team formed CGC I, a blank check company formed for substantially similar purposes as our company. CGC I completed its initial public offering in February 2021, in which it sold 34,500,000 units, each unit consisting of one Class A ordinary share of CGC I and one-third of one warrant to purchase one Class A ordinary share, for an offering price of $10.00 per unit, generating aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $345.0 million. Some members of our management team serve on the management team of CGC I.
On September 19, 2021, CGC I entered into a definitive business combination agreement with Tiedemann Wealth Management Holdings, LLC (“TWMH”), TIG Trinity GP, LLC (“TIG GP”), TIG Trinity Management, LLC (“TIG MGMT” and together with TIG GP, the “TIG Entities”), Alvarium Investments Limited (“Alvarium”), Rook MS LLC (“Umbrella Merger Sub”), and Alvarium Tiedemann Capital, LLC (“Umbrella”) to form Alvarium Tiedemann Holdings, which is expected to be a leading independent, global wealth and asset manager to provide entrepreneurs, multi-generational families, institutions, and emerging next-generation leaders with fiduciary capabilities as well as alternative investment strategies and strategic advisory services. The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2022, subject to regulatory and shareholder approvals, and other customary closing conditions.
We believe that potential sellers of target businesses will view the fact that our management team has negotiated and entered into business combination and merger agreements, as sponsor and as a target, as a positive factor in considering whether or not to enter into a business combination with us. However, past performance of our management team, Cartesian, or its affiliates is not a guarantee of either the ability to successfully identify