Alantra becomes a strategic partner of MCH Investment Strategies to support its growth and internationalisation plan

Alantra becomes a strategic partner of MCH Investment Strategies to support its growth and internationalisation plan. MCH Private Equity leaves the shareholders.

• Alantra and MCH Investment Strategies have reached an agreement whereby Alantra will acquire a 40% stake in MCH Investment Strategies.
• MCH Investment Strategies is an independent firm specialising in the selection of international managers with proven talent in an asset class and the structuring of alternative investment vehicles for marketing to Spanish, Italian and Portuguese investors. Founded in 2008, it currently has more than €3 billion in assets under management and represented.
• MCH Investment Strategies was founded by Tasio del Castaño and Alejandro Sarrate, with support from the partners in MCH Private Equity, who held a minority stake in MCH Investment Strategies until their exit from the shareholding. MCH PE and MCH Investment Strategies will continue operating as two completely independent entities as they have done to date.
• The association with Alantra will allow MCH Investment Strategies to accelerate its expansion plans in Europe, increasing its access to a greater variety of institutional investors, and to new alternative asset managers in order to increase its product range.
• The agreement allows Alantra to increase its offer of financial services by adding a new line of business to its current Investment Banking, Asset Management and Credit Portfolio Advisory divisions.

Madrid, 3 March 2021 – Alantra and MCH Investment Strategies have reached an agreement whereby Alantra will acquire a 40% stake in MCH Investment Strategies and will become a strategic partner for its expansion plans. This operation sees MCH Private Equity partners leave the shareholders after 12 years with a minority stake. The firm also consolidates its executive partner base, increasing the number and stake of team members. After closing the transaction, which is subject to obtaining the necessary approval of the CNMV, which is expected in the coming days, the company will adopt a new brand and its executive partners will control the company.

“This transaction lays the foundations for a new growth phase for the firm by attracting a top-tier strategic partner, guaranteeing our independence and reinforcing our commitment to building a broad and solid long-term executive partner base”, said Alejandro Sarrate and Tasio del Castaño, founding partners of MCH Investment Strategies. “With Alantra, we gain a global partner that will provide us with the necessary strategic and institutional support to enter into a new phase of international growth while continuing to improve the service we offer to our investors.”

“MCH Investment Strategies is in a privileged position to scale its business in the coming years: a great management team that shares our entrepreneurial culture, a high-quality product offering and exclusive agreements with leading international alternative asset managers. We are very pleased with the agreement reached and look forward to working with Tasio, Alejandro and the entire MCH Investment Strategies team to help them achieve their growth plans”, said Santiago Eguidazu, CEO of Alantra.
Jose Maria Muñoz, founding partner of MCH Private Equity, commented: “We are proud to have shared an enormously successful project with the managers of MCH Investment Strategies during all these years and we hope that in this new phase, with the support of Alantra, MCH Investment Strategies will continue to consolidate its position as one of the leading European firms in the field of fund selection, structuring and distribution.”

 

About MCH Investment Strategies
Founded in 2008, MCH Investment Strategies is an independent firm specialising in the selection of international managers with proven talent in an asset class and the structuring of alternative investment products for marketing to Spanish, Italian and Portuguese institutional clients and family offices. Its activity consists of (i) the representation of asset managers specialising in liquid strategies with a proven ability to generate long-term added value and (ii) asset management in illiquid alternative strategies, in which MCH Investment Strategies structures and markets investment vehicles in partnership with renowned international asset managers such as Alpinvest (private equity), Apollo (private debt), or JP Morgan (real assets).

 

About Alantra
Alantra is an asset management, investment banking and credit portfolio advisory firm specialising in providing high value-added services to companies, family groups and institutional investors operating in the mid-market segment. The Group has over 540 employees in the main markets in Europe, the United States, Latin America and Asia.
The Asset Management division offers its clients access to a wide range of investment strategies (direct investments, funds of funds, co-investments, and secondary funds) in six highly specialised asset management classes (private equity, active funds, private debt, infrastructure, energy transition and technology). At 31 December 2020, assets under management in direct investments stood at €2.6bn, while total commitments by investors in funds of funds, co-investments and secondary funds stood at €11.7bn.