Gaw Capital Reputation

I'll add a general comment about foreign firms operating in the US (I think this is might be true for Gaw, but I am really just speculating on what I know of them)..

Many try actively to "hide" their US activities and holding by always co-investing with a US based firm who acts as the GP, leaving the foreign firm as LP. This has a lot to do with US taxation and control issues (go look up FIRPTA, sucks for true FX owners), but some see it as a risk/disadvantage to have it be known that a building is owned with Chinese or other foreign money. So they let the US partner get all the credit even if they effectively own 99% of of the asset. I know many SWFs do this as standard practice, especially the Middle Eastern ones, but I've seen the Asian ones behave in the same way. 

So, Gaw may be way bigger in the US than common wisdom suggests, worth investigating.  

When a FX firm really wants to land in the US, they will often start a whole US business that just happens to be FX owned or controlled (without adding detail, I know this structure well as it basically what my firm does). But this is a major commitment, is really expensive, and takes on new levels of risk. Asian firms (especially if they have Chinese money which I'm sure Gaw does) and Middle Eastern firms really see the US political risk as a threat (for good reason, as today's world shows) and don't want to invite attention.