Our Legacy

Leaf Capital Partners is a single-family investment office with over 40 years of experience deploying capital across operating businesses, real assets, private funds, and structured investments. We invest directly, take limited partner positions, and co-invest alongside partners across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

Our approach is disciplined and execution-focused. We target asset-backed and cash flow-oriented opportunities where structure, governance, and management drive outcomes. Capital is deployed through direct investments and LP commitments in complex or transitional situations.

The firm’s legacy originates in Victoria, Canada, where the first generation built and operated petroleum and industrial businesses, developing and exiting assets in the late 1990s. That experience established a focus on asset quality, capital efficiency, and downside protection.

Today, Leaf invests across real estate, structured credit, life sciences, technology, infrastructure, and consumer sectors. We prioritize opportunities that combine durable business models with responsible capital deployment, where human capital, aligned incentives, and governance directly impact performance.

Our focus is consistent. Preserve capital first, then generate long-term returns through structure, discipline, and execution.

Executive Team

Richard de Lima

President & Chief Investment Officer

Steven Insalaco

Risk and Operations Director

Valarie Wu

Chief portfolio strategist

Jurika Fratiwi

Principal & director, Asia-Pacific investment