Activity
Private Equity Partners operates in private equity, supporting companies and entrepreneurs in growth, consolidation, and strategic development.
Through direct investments, buyouts, expansion capital, and specialized advisory, it partners with businesses to create value and strengthen their competitive positioning over the long term.
Investment activity
Private Equity Partners's activities, carried out directly or through the ClubInv – Permanent Capital platform, focus on the following key areas.
Expansion Capital and Pre-IPO
Capital investments aimed at supporting growth, strengthening competitive positioning, and preparing companies for listing on regulated markets, with a structured approach to governance and transparency.
Buy & Build
Design and execution of industrial aggregation strategies aimed at building sector platforms through targeted acquisitions and operational integration.
Venture Capital and ETA (Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition)
Selective investments in high-potential entrepreneurial initiatives and in acquisition projects led by entrepreneurs or managers, with a disciplined approach to risk assessment.
Buyout
Acquisition and corporate reorganization transactions, often in partnership with management, aimed at supporting the company through a path of growth and value creation.
Specialized Consulting Activity
Alongside its investment activity, Private Equity Partners also provides independent advisory and specialized support across all areas of equity investments, assisting entrepreneurs, companies, institutional investors and managers — both domestic and international — in identifying and executing the most suitable solutions for their specific needs. This includes IPO preparation and coordination, partnerships, strategic investments and aggregations, as well as MBO and broader M&A transactions in Italy and abroad.
Clubinv Permanent Capital
Since 2026 Private Equity Partners has expanded its operating model, adding to its traditional activity an investment platform structured around innovative principles: Clubinv Permanent Capital.
Clubinv is an Italian permanent capital platform organized under the Independent Sponsor model. It originates, structures and coordinates direct investments in SMEs, also with the active participation of entrepreneurs, family offices and other investors in co-investment transactions, with an entrepreneurial, industrial approach focused on creating value over time.
Clubinv stems from a strategic and equity partnership that structurally integrates three highly complementary categories of parties:
- two Sponsors of the initiative - Banca Finint and Private Equity Partners, organizations with solid financial expertise, deep knowledge of the Italian mid-market and long, recognized experience in private equity investments
- an experienced, structured and strongly aligned Management Team, thanks to direct co-investment in every transaction
- a selected group of Partner entrepreneurs, who, in addition to investing, actively and independently take part in the decision-making process, bringing industrial input, strategic relationships and top-level managerial and entrepreneurial vision.
The unique composition of its shareholder base enables Clubinv to operate as an industrial and strategic partner, not as a mere financial investor. The initiative provides high-level expertise both financially and industrially, making it possible to actively support portfolio companies in the main development processes, with particular reference to:
Financial optimization, managerialization and
generational transitions
Acquisitions and mergers in Italy and abroad
IPOs and Delisting
Creation of industrial hubs
Buyout transactions in various forms (MBO, MBI, FBO)
Strategic Joint Ventures and corporate reorganizations
The nature and organizational-decision-making model of the platform makes it possible to shape the setup, governance and financial structure based on the needs of each project, with the aim of maximizing the strategic and industrial development of the target companies within the timeframes deemed most appropriate from time to time.
Business Principles
Business Principles (officially adopted by PEP since 2002)
Our participated companies’ interest always comes first. Our experience shows that if we serve our participated companies well, helping them in maximising their corporate value, our own success will follow and our investors’ interest is protected and maximised.
Our key assets are our people and reputation. We are dedicated to fully complying with the laws, rules and ethical principles that govern us. Our continued success depends upon unswerving adherence to this standard.
We take great pride in the professional quality of our work. We have an uncompromising determination to achieve excellence in everything we undertake. Though we may be involved in a wide variety of activities within the private equity business, we would, if it came to a choice, rather be best than bigger.
We stress creativity and imagination in everything we do. While recognising that the old way may still be the best way, we constantly strive to find a better solution to problems.
We make an unusual effort to identify and recruit the very best person to work for us and we carefully select our people one by one. In our business we know that without the best people we cannot be the best firm.
We offer our people the opportunity to put to fruitful use their expertise and skills more rapidly than is possible at most other places. We have yet to find the limits to the responsibility that our best people are able to assume. Their own success depends solely on ability, performance and contribution to the firm’s success, without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, or any other impermissible criterion or circumstance.
We stress teamwork in everything we do. While individual creativity is always encouraged, we have found that team effort often produces the best results. We have no room for those who put their personal interest ahead of the interest of the firm, our participated companies and our investors.
The dedication of our people to the firm and the intense effort they give to their jobs are greater than one finds in most other organisations. We think that this is an important part of our success.
Returns and profitability are key to our success and crucial to our future. It is our practice to share our profits generously with all who helped create them.
We consider the relationship with our investors a key element for our success and future. We strongly want to assure them the best possible service we can, protecting their resources, maximising their interest and returns, and allowing them to be informed and updated on everything we do in their interest.
We constantly strive to anticipate the rapidly changing needs of the environment. We know that the world of finance and private equity will not stand still and that complacency can lead to extinction.
We regularly receive confidential information as part of our normal business relationships. To breach a confidence or to use confidential information improperly or carelessly would be unthinkable.
Our business is highly competitive and we aggressively seek to expand our business relationships. However, we must always be fair competitors and must never denigrate other firms.
Integrity and honesty are at the heart of our business. We expect our people to maintain high ethical standards in everything they do, both in their work for the firm and in their personal lives.