3G Capital is on the hunt for its next acquisition target.
Like a patient tennis player who is most frustrating to play, they stand at the baseline waiting for an opponent to make a mistake, and only at the moment of weakness do they pounce, unleashing aggressive cost cutting tactics to deliver investor value.
Jorge Paulo Lemann, a former professional tennis player and founder of private equity firm 3G Capital, is one such tennis player.
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
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