Vallis Capital Partners is an independent holding company focused on managing Private Equity and investment funds, fully owned by the Founding Partners.
Vallis Capital Partners strategy is based on proactive ownership of its subsidiaries and a "hands on" approach, benefiting from an impressive track record of its management team and non-executive Directors.
Vallis Capital Partners believes in intrinsic long-term value based on the sustained growth of its portfolio companies.
Vallis Capital Partners stands for a comprehensive alignment with the interests of its Limited Partners, through the adoption of the best practices in governance for Private Equity. This alignment involves, among others, a long-term commitment to an active investor relationship and by assuming significant positions in the capital, through a General Partner.
The Executive Board members, who are also the Founding Partners of Vallis Capital Partners have over 70 years of combined professional experience, having known each other personally and professionally for over a decade.
The Executive Board members possess complementary skills in diverse areas, such as fixed income and equity capital markets, investors' relations, business development and entrepreneurship, family businesses, fund management and senior banking and, particularly, actual experience on senior management positions in various sectors and industries.
Vallis Capital Partners believes in the importance of a Non-Executive Member to complement and balance the skills and experience of the Executive Board, exposing its strategic orientations and critical management decisions to an independent opinion. The Non-Executive Members of the Board of Directors of Vallis Capital Partners comprises two senior professionals, publicly known by their competence and reputation and whose careers include reputable private equity industry experience and an important Iberian network.
He has over 30 years of professional experience in the banking sector, where he has performed technical, managerial and directorship functions. Between April 2012 and August 2016 he was an Executive Board Member of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, coordinating the commercial activity, credit recovery, specialized credit and real estate asset management. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors of several companies of the Caixa Geral de Depósitos Group, with emphasis on investment banking, insurance and specialized credit, and was responsible, as shareholder representative, of monitoring banks and branches of the Group in Spain, France, Luxembourg and Cape Verde. Between April 2012 and November 2013, on behalf of Caixa Geral de Depósitos, he was a non-executive director of Portugal Telecom, SGPS, SA. He holds a degree in Economics from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto, where he was a guest assistant lecturer, currently integrating its Council of Representatives, as an external personality. He was also a member of the General and Supervisory Board of Porto Business School and is currently a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Luanda.
Specialist in Negotiation, he is a professor in the Department of Entrepreneurship (and member of the International Advisory Board) at IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain. He is also a visiting professor at INSEAD, Graduate School of Business at Stanford, Harvard Business School and CEIBS (China).
He is a personal coach of renowned managers and a consultant to several important Spanish companies.
He has significant experience in the Private Equity industry with known publications in this area and a close collaboration with the EVCA (European Venture Capital Association). He was also a member of the European Advisory Board of the Carlyle Group that operates in the segment of large buy-outs.
He graduated in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Cataluña, has an MBA from ESADE in Barcelona, and a PhD from the Stanford University (U.S.).
Vallis Capital Partners, being a Socially Responsible Investor, applies a "negative filter" when advising the funds under its management and potential investments by its subsidiaries, taking into account Environmental, Social and Governance criteria.
Vallis Capital Partners believes that a prudent and balanced management of these values is a key catalyzer to creating value in its investments because companies which are able to successfully mitigate these risks will deliver a better economic performance in the long term.
Vallis Capital Partners was the first Portuguese asset management company to have become a signatory of the "Principles for Responsible Investment" (PRI) of the United Nations and is committed to gradually enforce its adoption by its subsidiaries and by the companies forming part of its portfolio of Private Equity funds.
The Private Equity industry had its origins after World War II, in the 40s and 50s. Yet the notable growth of this sector took place in the '80s, mainly in the USA and the UK.
Unlike a typical financial institution, the general manager of a Private Equity takes control of the investee, appointing directors and actively contributing to the definition of the strategy and business plan of the company. Its ultimate goal is to add medium and long-term value to the company, preparing an Exit after a settled period.
Private Equity Firms traditionally raise money for their investments from institutional investors such as pension funds, insurance companies, investment banks and HNWI.
Investors are referred to as Limited Partners, while the management company is named General Partner.
The contribution of a Private Equity company, goes beyond the provision of financial resources, and it is based on structuring ideas for creating shareholder value, namely:
To learn more about Private Equity, we suggest the video "What is Private Equity" and the book "The Little Book of Private Equity" published by ECVA.
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