Our Focus

WE LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITIES CREATED BY GLOBAL TRENDS.

Macro to micro

Our investment process starts with our view of what is happening at the macro and global level. We identify how these trends could create opportunities. We then look for businesses that we believe are well positioned to seize them. This approach – from macro to micro – is the foundation of K7 Investments’s investment strategy.

Consistent characteristics

Having identified sector opportunities, we look for businesses with three key characteristics to enable us to capitalise on this potential: they are asset-backed; are in essential industries; and require fundamental change.

This approach has led us to invest in three areas:

Transformational Private Equity
Real Estate
Renewable Energy Infrastructure

Transformational Private Equity

WE AIM TO CREATE LONG-TERM VALUE BY TRANSFORMING BUSINESSES

The private equity funds we raise are used to acquire asset-backed businesses in essential industries that can be transformed through fundamental change. As a private equity firm, we aim to create long-term value by transforming businesses away from the pressures of the public markets. We search for opportunities which have been overlooked. We actively seek out investments in sectors which may be out of favour and in businesses which have been under-managed or under-capitalised.

Through a combination of strategic change, improved management and sustained investment, we transform these portfolio businesses, creating value for our stakeholders. These revitalised businesses are subsequently sold or listed on the public stock markets.

Real Estate

K7 INVESTMENTS HAS A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF THE REAL ESTATE MARKET

Operational real estate businesses exhibit the three key characteristics we look for in investments. They are asset-backed through the properties the businesses own, with the rental income generated from the assets providing a reliable stream of revenue. They are in an essential industry: residential real estate is experiencing strong demand in markets around the world. Often the assets have been under-invested and under-managed, leaving scope for transformation.

K7 Investments has a deep understanding of the real estate market and its core value drivers gained from owning and financing real estate assets over many years. It has proven experience in directly owning real estate, maximising the underlying value of real estate assets by enhancing the operating businesses, granular work-outs of real estate loan portfolios and asset-backed debt structuring.

Renewable Energy Infrastructure

K7 Investments IS A GLOBAL LEADER IN RENEWABLE ENERGY INVESTMENT

K7 Investments is a global leader in renewable energy investment. It has owned and financed renewable energy assets since 2003 and has established a proven track record of building best-in-class renewable energy businesses which operate low-risk, commercially-proven generation technologies that are characterised by scale, operational excellence and strong cash flow generation capacity.

Over the past decade, K7 Investments has led the growth of this asset class and completed 18 transactions with an aggregate enterprise value of nearly $3.2 billion (€2.5 billion). In doing so it has built three utility-scale businesses that, at the end of 2012, had an aggregate installed capacity of 1.4 GW.