Private company

Arcapita

Holding and real estate company

Arcapita founded in 1997, is an asset management firm. Headquartered in Manama, Bahrain, Arcapita also operates from its offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore. The firm serves a group of investors in the Middle East region including investment firms, family offices, high net-worth individuals, and sovereign wealth funds.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1997Founded1
  • Industryfinancial services1
  • HeadquartersAtlanta1
  • Legal formholding company1
  • LEI549300FPDKCE2YNJQS423
  • StatusInactive3
  • LEI statusRetired3
  • Registered addressC/O Richard E Lee, 31407 Port Wentworth, United States3
  • Registered withGeorgia Secretary of State Corporations Division, 0A007523

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Arcapita founded in 1997, is an asset management firm. Headquartered in Manama, Bahrain, Arcapita also operates from its offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore. The firm serves a group of investors in the Middle East region including investment firms, family offices, high net-worth individuals, and sovereign wealth funds. Arcapita completed over 100 investments in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia for a total transaction value exceeding $30 billion. The board of directors contain nine members, mainly from the Gulf Cooperation Council. Members are chairs, previous chairpersons, or current Chief Executive Officers of sovereign wealth funds, regional investment firms or global financial services firms.2

Corporate structure

Arcapita sits at the top of its group. 9 entities, 2 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Arcapita Port Wentworth, Georgia, United States
    • 3PD, Inc. Subsidiary · Marietta
    • Bijoux Terner Subsidiary · Miami
    • Freightliner Subsidiary · Birmingham, United Kingdom
    • Juici Patties Subsidiary · Sandy Springs
    • PODS Subsidiary · Clearwater, Florida, United States
    • Caribou Coffee Subsidiary · United States
    • Cypress Communications Subsidiary
    • Tensar Subsidiary

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Arcapita reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

Arcapita was founded in 1997. Around that time, Islamic banking started to gain popularity, but the industry lacked Sharia compliant investment opportunities. Arcapita's Sharia compliant model was created offering private equity and real estate alternative investments. Arcapita's first exit was Computer Generation Incorporated in December 2000.

In 2003, Arcapita opened a London office. In the year that followed, Arcapita acquired Church's Chicken, a quick-serve chicken restaurant chain, based in the United States. In 2005, First Islamic Bank, Crescent Capital Inc. and Crescent Capital Europe rebranded to Arcapita to unify their global brand across three offices in Atlanta, Bahrain, and London.

Arcapita recorded a performance of $360 million in fiscal year 2008, and extended their geographical presence by opening an office in Singapore that would handle investments in Asia. In 2010, Arcapita moved its head office to Bahrain Bay.

In 2013, Arcapita completed its restructuring which was initiated in 2012. This restructure was due to the effects of the world economic crises that lead Arcapita to file for Chapter 11. A year later, Arcapita raised a new equity capital from shareholders to fund its growth strategy. In 2017, Arcapita along with Mumtalakat Holding Company, acquired a controlling interest in NAS United Healthcare Service, making it Arcapita's first private equity investment since the capital raise. In 2017, Arcapita acquired branding firm Stratus; they then sold the firm to Vestar Capital Partners for an enterprise value of more than $450 million, reportedly three times the value at the time of Arcapita's purchase.

In April 2021, Arcapita announced the purchase of the Cedardale Distribution Center in Dallas used by FedEx. The value of Arcapita's US industrial real estate portfolio became over $200 million after the acquisition.

From Wikipedia’s article on Arcapita, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

  • private equity

Listed on Wikidata.1

Private equity

Arcapita acquires interest in midsized companies with an emphasis on the United States, and the Middle East.

Arcapita's private equity portfolio contains 6 active and 41 exited investments. Some past investments include:

Freightliner Group Limited – a UK rail logistics company – Acquired in 2008, exited in 2015.

Church's Chicken – a quick-service chicken restaurant chain – Acquired in 2004, exited in 2009.

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PODS – provider of portable storage and moving solutions for residential and business customers. Acquired in 2007, exited in 2015.

J Jill – retailer of women's apparel, accessories and footwear – Acquired in 2011, exited in 2015.

Caribou Coffee Company, Inc. – an international retail coffee business – Acquired in 2000, exited in 2011.

South Staffordshire – water utility company that supplies water in the English Midlands – Acquired in 2004, exited in 2007.

Roxar – an independent technology services company, dedicated to developing solutions to optimize reservoir production for the global oil and gas industry – Acquired in 2006, exited in 2007.

Stratus – the sole nationwide provider of signage and lighting services in the US – Acquired in 2018 and exited in 2021.

NAS Neuron – a leading third-party administrator of medical claims in the GCC – Acquired in 2017, exited in 2020.

Real estate

Arcapita acts as principal, arranger and manager of real estate investments, and has completed transactions worth $13 billion. Arcapita focuses of the following sectors: industrial and logistics assets, and rental housing, which includes senior living and student housing communities. Arcapita currently has 16 real estate investments under its management, and over 50 exited investments. Past real estate investments include:

ARC Real Estate Income Fund – a joint venture with Al Rajhi fund to acquire logistics and retail properties – Vintage year 2010, exited in 2015.

Arcapita Senior Living – a series of investments as part of a joint venture with Sunrise Senior Living to acquire assisted living properties in the United States. Vintage years 2002–2005, exited in 2006–2015.

Riffa Views – joint venture with Bahrain International Golf Course Company to develop a golf course residential community – Vintage year 2004, exited in 2014.

Arcapita Asian Industrial Yielding I – a joint venture with Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd, to acquire industrial properties in Singapore, which was exited via an initial public offering (IPO) on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). Vintage year 2008, exited 2010.

Mutlifamily I – a series of investments as part of a joint venture with Archstone-Smith to acquire apartment complexes in the United States. Vintage year 2000, exited in 2005.

Bahrain Bay – a mixed-use waterfront development – Vintage year 2005.

From Wikipedia’s article on Arcapita, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. Jun 13, 2008Acquired Freightliner1
  2. 2003Acquired Ampad1

Timeline

  1. 1997Founded Founded1

Sources

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