Firm Overview

Founded in 1977, Cinven is a prominent European equity firm specializing in buyouts. The firm is headquartered in London, England, and maintains branch offices in Guernsey, Frankfurt, Paris, Madrid, Milan, Luxembourg, Hong Kong and New York.

Cinven has over the course of their history completed a total of over 70 billion Euros. The firm focuses primarily on six market sectors, including Healthcare,TMT (technology, media, and telecoms), Industrials, Financial Services, and Business Services. Buyout transactions developed by Cinven tend to involve established companies in positions of industry leadership, who require from Cinven an equity stake of at least 100 million Euros.

Value-creation strategies employed by Cinven investment and management professionals include promoting focus on the core business, growth and development of a business in current markets, industry consolidation, refocusing business strategy in response to changing market trends, expansion into new markets, development of new markets, and reorganizing reporting structures to foster accountability and focus.

Prominent portfolio companies include cable operator Ziggo, betting and gaming company Gala Coral, and Amadeus, a travel distribution services corporation.