Partners Group on LinkedIn: #privatemarkets #ipos (2024)

Our Private Wealth business has further strengthened its local presence this year, making several new appointments across teams in the US, Europe, and Asia. The number of private wealth professionals at Partners Group has now doubled within the last 12 months, reflecting the significant opportunities we see in the space. We would like to extend a big welcome to all those who have started in their new positions so far. This includes Sunnie Yun, CFA, CAIA, David Zerbib, Qihan Chen, Michael Nuss, Mariam Haqqie, and John Ledva who have joined us as members of management. This year has been busy for our Private Wealth business, with the launch of new evergreen products in the US, Europe, and Asia, including a new ELTIF-compliant private equity evergreen; the addition of new distribution partners, most recently in Greece; and the launch of our new Hong Kong office, which will be a launchpad for growing our private wealth client base in the Greater China region. Our Private Wealth business has over USD 44 billion in assets under management globally. #PrivateWealth

149

4 Comments

Partners Group has opened an office in Hong Kong, bringing our total number of offices in Asia to seven and worldwide to 21. Henry Chui, CFA, Head of Private Wealth APAC, will head the Hong Kong office. He will manage a dedicated team focusing on the firm's client activities in Hong Kong and the Greater China Area and strengthening its existing network of client and investment partner relationships. A particular priority for the team will be expanding the firm's private wealth client base by adding strategic distribution partners locally for its suite of private markets solutions, including its evergreen funds. Henry Chui adds: "Individual investors in Asia are increasingly looking to private markets as a means to access the real economy. Having boots on the ground in Hong Kong is important to provide local coverage to our distribution partners in the Greater China area and complements our coverage across the rest of the region."Partners Group first established its presence in Asia in 2004 with the opening of its Singapore office, which serves as the firm's regional headquarters. Today, Partners Group employs more than 550 people across the region in its offices in Manila, Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo.Read the press release here: https://lnkd.in/dzHetUd3

720

7 Comments

Partners Group has agreed to invest in eStruxture Data Centers, the largest Canadian data center platform, on behalf of our clients. As part of the CAD 1.8 billion transaction, Partners Group will acquire a stake alongside an increased investment from existing sponsor Fengate Asset Management. The investment will be made through our Infrastructure Partnership Investments platform, which covers secondaries, co-investments, and minority participations globally.eStruxture is a premier data center operator with 15 state-of-the-art facilities across all major markets in Canada, including Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver. The Company serves a diverse customer base spanning cloud services, AI, media and entertainment, financial services, and enterprise. Dr. Dmitriy Antropov, Managing Director, Co-Head Infrastructure Partnership Investments, Partners Group, says: "eStruxture is a leading data center provider in a number of rapidly growing North American data center markets, which fits squarely within our digitization thematic area of focus. The Company has a differentiated customer focus, strong sustainability credentials, and a large footprint in the local market, as well as proven expansion capabilities. We look forward to supporting eStruxture and our partners at Fengate on future growth initiatives." #Infrastructure

342

3 Comments

Partners Group today announced the close of its fifth direct private equity program with total commitments surpassing the target of USD 15 billion. The Program comprises commitments to Partners Group's fifth direct private equity fund, as well as bespoke solutions and open-ended funds that allocate to the same direct strategy. Partners Group's private equity strategy applies deep thematic research to identify high conviction sub-sectors supported by resilient long-term global trends across four industry verticals: Technology, Health & Life, Goods & Products, and Services. Through its entrepreneurial governance approach, the firm partners with management teams to build a value creation plan around clearly defined strategic pillars. At the time of closing, the Program was committed to companies including BREITLING, a leading Swiss watchmaker; SureWerx, a North American supplier of mission-critical personal protective equipment, safety gear, and tool solutions; and ROSEN, a global provider of inspection services for crucial energy infrastructure assets. Read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/gDXtv3ku

1,247

7 Comments

Christian Wicklein, our Co-Head of Private Wealth, recently spoke to Citywire about the rise of new evergreen funds. Christian made the point that with so many new products coming to market, return dispersion in the industry, which is already much higher than in public markets, is likely to increase. He also explained that Partners Group has positioned its evergreen range as core holdings, rather than concentrated or niche sector strategies, to ensure a steady stream of investment activity within portfolios. You can read the article here (registration required): https://lnkd.in/eqpEdpYQ #PrivateWealth

150

2 Comments

Our portfolio company North Star, a provider of mission-critical offshore infrastructure support services in the UK, has secured new debt investment of up to GBP 425 million to accelerate its plans to expand into the European market. The financing will help add 40 hybrid service operation vessels (SOVs) to the company's existing fleet by 2040. North Star currently has three SOVs in operation at the UK's Dogger Bank Wind Farm, with another vessel on schedule for delivery next year. Four further newbuilds are underway including for EnBW's He Dreiht windfarm in Germany and for Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy at the East Anglia THREE project in the UK.North Star's SOV fleet provides crucial logistics and operations support to offshore windfarms, including the accommodation of technicians working in field. These high-performance hybrid-electric ships utilise numerous green technologies and solutions to best support the safe transfer of personnel and cargo.Read the press release here: https://lnkd.in/g6RqjwkM#Infrastructure

296

In addition to securing land, power, and fibre, developers are also grappling with access to critical components, which has coincided with a vast increase in demand for data centres. This is why having a highly experienced and capable team is so essential, explains Henk van Duijnhoven, Managing Director, in a new interview with Infrastructure Investor. Henk also talks about our conviction in portfolio company EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure's growth prospects, how AI is changing the types and locations of data centres, and where AI can be used to support asset management within the industry. You can read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eeRd4uy6#Infrastructure #AI

171

2 Comments

Last week our Private Equity Health & Life Europe team, led by Pascal Jean-Noël Noth, hosted the first annual Health & Life Entrepreneurial Ownership Summit in our London office. The event brought together 27 industry leaders, including CEOs, board members, and entrepreneurs, for a full day of workshops and networking. The group debated a wide range of topics that are impacting healthcare investing, including the advent of Smart Manufacturing and Pharma Factories of the Future and new treatment modalities with full automation in sterile environments. They also looked at the importance of connecting the right data to patient use cases, which should help take outpatient treatment to the next level. Thank you to our keynote speakers Ryan Richardson, Chief Strategy Officer at BioNTech, andDr Patrik Bächtiger, clinician, academic, and venture capitalist focusing on disruptive AI and digitisation, for their insights. This event is the start of a recurring forum across Europe, the Americas, and APAC. Partners Group, which has USD 76 billion in private equity assets under management, is active in the healthcare and life sciences space with a team of over 50 dedicated investment and operating professionals globally. See more about our Private Equity business here: https://lnkd.in/eGyAhRMq #PrivateEquity

172

1 Comment

Partners Group, on behalf of its clients, has agreed to sell a Swedish retail warehouse portfolio to Svenska Handelsfastigheter. The portfolio is comprised of seven quality properties representing approximately 85,200 sqm of retail space and is 95% let with an average remaining contract period of 4.8 years. During our holding period, we implemented several value creation initiatives including securing large anchor tenants and developing 8,500 sqm of retail space in Västerås as well as three fast food restaurants to further strengthen local service offerings.Jan Hannappel, Member of Management, Private Real Estate Europe, Partners Group says: "Following the sale of our Finnish holdings to Nyfosa back in 2022, we are pleased to report another major exit with the sale of our Swedish retail warehouse portfolio, after completing several transformational value creation projects over the years."

289

1 Comment

Today marks five years since we opened our US HQ in Denver, which is now home to around 300 Partners Group employees.Our Denver campus was the first building we launched in our industrial 'look and feel', which provided the building blocks to our new corporate design unveiled in March and the blueprint for other global offices. In other words, it's been five years of being Built Differently to Build Differently! Thank you to all our employees who make Partners Group a workplace that is truly built differently.

1,137

15 Comments