Portfolio Companies

Included below are current and past portfolio companies of the European Principal strategy. Current portfolio company descriptions are as of March 31, 2019, while past portfolio companies are as of the time of exit.

Current Portfolio Companies

Ainscough (United Kingdom)
Ainscough is the largest operator of mobile cranes in the United Kingdom. The company supplies lifting solutions to the petrochemical, energy, infrastructure and construction industries.

Anthology (United Kingdom)
Anthology is a platform established in 2013 to develop large-scale residential housing in London.

Arcade Beauty (U.S.)
Arcade Beauty is a global leader in sample packaging solutions for the fragrance and cosmetic industries. The company, which was formed by the merger of Arcade Marketing and Bioplan, operates in France, Spain, the U.S., Brazil and China.

Ascot Lloyd (United Kingdom)
Ascot Lloyd, formerly known as Bellpenny, a platform established by the European Principal Group in 2012, is a national firm of financial planners and wealth managers.

Banca Progetto (Italy)
Banca Progetto is an Italian challenger bank with an online deposit-taking platform and a focus on a number of specific lending verticals including loans to small and medium-sized enterprises, salary-secured loans and factoring against Italian public administration receivables.

Countrywide PLC (United Kingdom)
Countrywide is the United Kingdom’s largest residential real estate agency and property services provider. The company’s property services include real estate sales and rentals, mortgage and insurance services, land and new homes, franchising, auctions, surveying, conveyancing and corporate property management services.

Dometude by Kley (France)
Dometude is a platform focused on developing and operating student housing in France.

Dublin Platform (Ireland)
A real estate development platform originally established to capitalize on the structural undersupply in the Dublin office sector. The strategy was later extended to the Dublin residential and retail markets.

Duologi (United Kingdom)
Duologi is a UK-based specialty consumer finance company that provides point-of-sale financing.

Elix Aviation Capital (Ireland)
Based in Dublin, Elix is the second largest lessor of commercial turboprop aircraft globally. The company’s core strategy involves acquiring popular mid-life turboprop aircraft at a discount and leasing these planes to regional airlines.

Fairfield Real Estate Finance (United Kingdom / Ireland)
Fairfield is a lending platform that originates high-yield commercial mortgages primarily in the nascent and underserved discounted payoff market.

Fitness First (United Kingdom)
Fitness First is a global health and fitness group.

Green Containership Group (Luxembourg)
GCG is a container ship platform established to acquire and lease newly built eco-designed container ships.

Griffin (Poland)
Griffin is a Polish special situations real estate investor focusing on hard assets, with well-diversified retail, residential and office platforms. The Griffin team has over 45 people executing the full spectrum of real estate investing and management.

Healthcare Activos (Spain)
Healthcare Activos is a healthcare real estate platform specialized in developing, managing and renting healthcare assets (care homes, hospitals and clinics) in Spain.

IT Kontrakt (Poland)
IT Kontrakt offers recruitment and outsourcing of IT professionals.

Kadans Science Partners (Netherlands)
Kadans is a leading development and management platform for science parks and buildings dedicated to knowledge-intensive industries, universities and start-ups in the Netherlands and other European countries.

LBRI (Greece)
LBRI, through its brands Sani and Ikos, is a leading Mediterranean hospitality group formed by the merger of the Sani and Ikos brands in 2015. The group currently owns and operates luxury hotels in Greece.

Meta Aerospace Capital (United States / United Kingdom)
Meta Aerospace Capital is an aircraft leasing firm providing highly flexible, special mission aviation (e.g. aerial intelligence, maritime patrol, special transport, pilot training, etc.) services. Meta buys aircraft and sensors and leases these systems and associated services to governments and local authorities.

Navig8 (United Kingdom)
The Navig8 Chemical Tankers platform was established to acquire and operate long-haul, newbuild chemical tanker vessels in partnership with Navig8, a leading chemical tanker operator and manager of third-party vessels.

Next Clinics (Germany)
Next Clinics is a healthcare platform focused on the assisted reproduction treatment industry in Europe.

PegasusLife (United Kingdom)
PegasusLife is a UK-based provider of independent living solutions tailored for the needs of the elderly population. The company acquires, develops and operates high-end retirement housing.

ProService (Poland)
ProService is the leading transfer agent for the Polish market offering specialized front and back-office solutions for both Polish and international financial institutions, including mutual funds, pension funds and insurance companies.

The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection (United States / Malta)
The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection is a new ultra-luxury cruise line, established in partnership with The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, L.L.C., part of Marriott International, Inc.

SAF (France)
SAF is a leading private helicopter owner and operator in France.

Saloro (Spain)
Saloro is a low-cost tungsten mining operation in Barruecopardo, located in central Spain, which is being developed in partnership with Ormonde Plc, an Irish listed junior exploration company.

Tribes (The Netherlands)
Tribes is one of the fastest-growing flexible office providers in the Benelux region.

Vitanas (Germany)
Vitanas is a leading private nursing care operator in Germany with regional clusters in Berlin and Hamburg.

Past Portfolio Companies

Axilone (France)
Axilone is a global leading manufacturer of primary plastic and metal packaging for the lipstick, fragrance and skincare segments. The company operates in France, Spain, the U.S. and China.

Bavaria Yachtbau Gmbh (Germany)
Bavaria Yachtbau, founded in 1978, was a global producer of mid-sized leisure boats. The company produced sailboats, motorboats and catamarans, and sold its products through a network of independent dealers in 50 countries.

Campofrío Food Group, S.A. (Spain)
Campofrío is one of the largest processed-meats producers in Europe, with a presence in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. The company’s brands includes Campofrío, Aoste, Navidul, Oscar Mayer, Fiorucci, Imperial, Nobre, Stegeman, Caroli Foods and Jean Caby. Products include, among others, cured ham, dry sausage, poultry, cooked ham, cold meat, sausages, pizzas and hot dogs.

Chesapeake Limited (United Kingdom)
Chesapeake is one of Europe’s leading providers of specialty paperboard packaging for the pharmaceutical, confectionery and spirits markets and also a producer of rigid plastic packaging. Paperboard packaging products include folding cartons, spirally wound composite tubes, leaflets and labels. Plastic packaging products include containers, bottles and various preforms for agrochemicals, other specialty chemicals, and the food and beverage markets.

Countryside Properties (United Kingdom)
Countryside develops private and affordable homes on greenfield and brownfield sites through partnerships with landowners, local authorities and registered providers. The company, which also includes premium homebuilder Millgate, primarily operates in London, the South East, East and North West of England.

Do Deutsche Office AG (Germany)
Deutsche Office was a leading German listed commercial real estate company with a focus on German metropolitan centers. The company was created through the February 2014 merger of German Acorn, and Prime Office REIT-AG, a publicly traded German real estate company. The company, which was renamed DO Deutsche Office AG (“Deutsche Office”) in July 2014, managed a portfolio of commercial real estate assets across Germany with a total rentable space of about 866,000 square meters and an attractive and broad tenant base. Its shares traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Following a successful tender offer for its shares, Deutsche Office was acquired in October 2015 by Alstria Office, a German office REIT, creating the leading listed German office property company.

Evac (Finland)
Evac is a global designer, manufacturer and marketer of environmentally friendly waste and wastewater collection and treatment systems for the building and the shipbuilding industries.

Hansa Heavy Lift (Germany)
Hansa Heavy Lift was the owner and operator of a fleet of heavy-lift vessels. From offices in Europe, Asia, North and South America, the company offered transport and installation solutions, as well as heavy-lift, super heavy-lift and project cargo transportation services.

Harkand Group (United Kingdom)
Harkand is a subsea service provider to the oil & gas industry, specializing in inspection, repair and maintenance of, and light construction for, offshore oil fields. The company owns a fleet of Diving Support Vessels (DSVs) and offers a full range of subsea services including diving, remotely operated vehicles and survey support.

Hesira Group (United Kingdom)
Hesira is a dental clinic platform in the Netherlands and Switzerland.

Jackson Square Aviation (France)
Jackson Square Aviation is an aircraft leasing company based in San Francisco, California with additional operations in Europe, Asia and Latin America. The company capitalized on the distress and dislocation in the aviation ﬁnance market by executing sale-leaseback transactions on new or near-new, next-generation commercial aircraft with carriers around the world.

Milpro (France)
Milpro is a leading provider of inflatable and semi-rigid boats for the military and high-end professional market.

Nexo
Nexo, formerly The Student Housing Company (Europe), is one of the largest owner-operators and developers of purpose-built student accommodation in Spain and, previously, Ireland. The company was formed in 2012, on the back of SHC’s successful UK student housing business, in order to capitalize on the supply-demand imbalance for purpose-built student accommodation in Spain and Ireland. Nexo sold its Irish portfolio in December 2016, and the company is now focused on the Spanish market.

Nordenia International AG (Germany)
Nordenia is one of the largest multinational manufacturers of technically innovative and value-added plastic film and packaging for customers in the food, hygiene, chemical and automotive industries. A majority of the company’s revenues come from blue-chip, multi-national consumer product companies such as Procter & Gamble, Nestlé and Mars. The company was acquired by Mondi Group in October 2012.

Panrico (Spain)
Panrico is the largest branded pastry, bread and biscuits producer in Spain and Portugal.

Railpool Gmbh (Germany)
Railpool is one of the leading European locomotive leasing companies with a large fleet of modern electric locomotives and passenger trains equipped with multiple country kits to enable easier travel between European countries with different track technologies. The company distinguishes itself by offering extensive ancillary services, such as full maintenance and documentation.

R&R Ice Cream (United Kingdom)
Built through a series of acquisitions, R&R is Europe’s largest private-label ice cream manufacturer and the second-largest take-home ice cream manufacturer in Europe. Its products are sold to major European retailers as both private label and branded products, some of which were manufactured and sold through licensing agreements with major international marketers including Nestle, Disney and Modelez International. The company was sold to PAI Partners in July 2013.

SACO (United Kingdom)
One of Europe’s leading owner-operators of serviced apartments and aparthotels, providing furnished residences (including kitchens) that offer guests a less intrusive service component with a longer average length of stay than hotels (30+ days).

SGD Pharma (France)
SGD Pharma is a worldwide leader in glass pharmaceutical packaging. The company was one of two subsidiaries of Saint-Gobain Desjonqueres before SGD split its Pharma and Perfumery businesses into independent operating units. SGD Pharma was sold to China Jianyin Investment Ltd. (“JIC”), a Chinese state-owned investment company, in October 2016.

Solvtrans (Norway)
Solvtrans is a leading wellboat operator globally servicing the salmon fish farming industry. Wellboats are used for the transportation of live fish as well as disease treatment services.

Stock Spirits Group (United Kingdom)
Created through the merger of Eckes & Stock and Polmos Lublin, Stock Spirits Group is one of the leading spirits producers in Central and Eastern Europe. Its principal geographic markets are Poland, the Czech Republic and Italy. Its shares were listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2013.

The Student Housing Company (United Kingdom)
The Student Housing Company is one of the largest owner-operators and developers, of purpose-built student accommodation in the UK. Formerly Knightsbridge Student Housing, the company was formed in 2010 to capitalize on the lack of supply and financing in the UK student housing market. In September 2016, the company was sold to a consortium led by Global Student Accommodation.

Titlestone (United Kingdom)
Titlestone is a specialty property finance company that was established in 2012 to provide loans to small- and medium-sized developers in London and the South East of England.

Verescence (France)
Verescence, formerly known as SGD Perfumery, is a worldwide leader in the production of specialty glass bottles for the perfumery and cosmetics industries.

Veridis (Israel)
Veridis, formerly known as Veolia Israel, is active in the waste, water and energy sectors in Israel.