Genii Capital

Genii Capital

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Founded	2008
Founder	Eric Lux and Gerard Lopez
Headquarters	Howald, Luxembourg
Key people	Eric Lux (CEO and Director) Gerard Lopez (Chairman)
Services	Investment management and financial advisory
Divisions	Genii Business Exchange
Website	www.genii-capital.com

Genii Capital is an international financial advisory and investment firm, which specialises in brand management, promising technologies, motorsport and a wide spectrum of venture capitalism activities. It was created in 2008, by two Luxembourger investors, Gerard Lopez and Eric Lux and has a particular focus on emerging markets, including the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) nations. Genii Capital focuses on a wide range of investment vehicles and also provides advisory services on topics ranging from the preparation of an IPO, the joint development of businesses, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets. As a result of a global restructuring initiative in 2011, Genii Capital is now located in the Finance division of The Genii Group, a global enterprise overseeing the business activities of Lux and Lopez.

On December 16, 2009 it was announced that Genii were to purchase a large stake in the Renault F1 Team. Genii beat Prodrive head David Richards to the deal. Genii was likely to merge the Renault Driver Development programme with its own Gravity Sport Management company, which manages drivers such as Ho-Pin Tung, who tested for the Renault team in 2009, as well as Christian Vietoris.

On December 8, 2010, Renault made public it would sell its remaining 25% share in the Enstone-based team, Renault F1 team, to Genii Capital, from that moment the sole shareholder.Group Lotus immediately became a partner of the team, renamed Lotus Renault GP. It is projected that in the future the carmaker company will purchase a significant share of it. The team is now called the Lotus F1 Team from 2012 until 2015, when the team was sold back to Renault after the team experienced funding issues.