Lansdowne Capital has made a number of equity investments in client and other businesses. We often invest in partnership with our clients and occasionally provide advisory services in exchange for equity participation.
Our investments include the following:
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Powerflute is the owner of a semi chemical paper mill based in Kuopio, Finland previously owned by M-real Corporation. Powerflute’s main product is high quality semi chemical fluting for speciality corrugated boxes. The company completed a successful IPO in May 2007, giving its initial investors, which included Dr. Dermot Smurfit and Lansdowne Capital, a 27 fold return on their initial investment. Lansdowne Capital has retained an equity stake in the new public company. |
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Getmobile Europe PLC operates as a leading online and direct seller of post paid mobile phone contracts in the German market. Getmobile, which seeks acquisitions in the service sector, is quoted on the AIM and IAX markets. |
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GlobeOp Financial Services, headquartered in London and New York, specialises in the provision of automated, state-of-the-art middle and back-office support services and fund administration for hedge funds, fund managers and high net worth family wealth managers. Lansdowne Capital was an early investor in this dynamic business. In July 2007 GlobeOp successfully completed an initial public offering of its shares on the London Stock Exchange and raised $105 million in new equity capital. The IPO valued Lansdowne Capital’s stake at almost six times the value of its initial investment. |
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Cognotec, headquartered in Dublin, is a global leader in supplying automated dealing software and services for foreign exchange and money markets participants. Cognotec has developed a foreign exchange trading solution for over 90 financial institutions in 20 countries around the world. |
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KMC Partners was launched in 2000 to provide wealth management services to very high net worth individuals, primarily in the United States. Headquartered in New York, KMC Partners was founded by a group of senior executives from UBS and elsewhere. Lansdowne Capital invested in 2000 and realised its investment in 2002 at a substantial profit. |
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NextJump, Inc., headquartered in New York, is the leading provider of corporation-sponsored, intranet-based employee discount programs in the US. NextJump works with human resources and benefits departments of multi-national corporations to provide employees with deeply discounted offerings from national retailers and local merchants. |
