Private | |
Industry | Private Equity |
Founded | 1977 |
Headquarters | London, United Kingdom |
Key people
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Stuart McAlpine, Managing Partner |
Products | Private Equity |
Website | www.cinven.com |
Cinven is a global private equity firm founded in 1977 with offices in 9 international locations in Guernsey, London, New York, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, Luxembourg, Madrid, and Hong Kong that acquires Europe and US-based corporations, and emerging market firms that fit with their core businesses, and necessitate a minimum equity investment of €100 million or more. In 2014, it had €11.5 billion in assets under management.
Cinven’s funding base originally came solely from three UK pension funds (British Coal, the Railway Industry and Barclays Bank) who remain as important investors. Cinven has been reported to originally stand for Coal Investment Nominees' for Venture Capital.
Cinven invests in six sectors on an international basis: Business Services; Technology, Media and Telecommunications; Financial Services; Industrials; Healthcare; and Consumer.
Cinven is a private equity firm based in London. Some of the recent acquisitions include: