Lone Star Funds is a closed-end, private equity limited partnership that includes corporate and public pension funds, university endowments, foundations, bank holding companies and family trusts. Established in 1995, it has organized equity funds of more than $23 billion to invest globally in secured and corporate unsecured debt instruments, real estate-related assets and select corporate opportunities. Lone Star Funds has affiliate offices in the United States, United Kingdom, England, Ireland, Germany, Japan, Taiwan and Korea. It offers asset acquisition services that include acquiring secured and corporate unsecured debt instruments and real estate assets with a short- and medium-term hold strategy. The company also offers debt and equity financing services for major rehabilitation of existing assets in various property types.