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Overview
Munich Private Equity Partners (“MPEP”) is aprivate equity advisory firm basedin Oberhaching, close to Munich. MPEP manages US$2.3bn, which is invested in private equity funds across the globe on both a primary and secondary basis. MPEP has a further office in Shanghai, China.

History
MPEP is the investment management arm of RWB Group, a German financial services organisation. Active since 1999, MPEP was established as an independent brand in 2011. Thanks to many years of experience within the RWB Group, MPEP has build up relationships with global private equity managers. Today, MPEP’s target clients are both retail and institutional investors.

Team
Led by Horst Güdeland John Morrison, the MPEP team comprises 20 professionals from diverse backgrounds and nationalities. The team believes in an entrepreuneurial, pro-active and dynamic approach. Investment Approach Its sole focus on private equity allows MPEP to constantly monitor the whole universe of managers in its target regions. It will pro-activley identify its target managers via a top-down and bottom-up approach, which provides for access to top tier private equity managers. MPEP follows a regional approach, clustering teams according to its main geographic target areas of Asia, Europe and North America. Those areas will take up 90% of all invested capital, with an opportunistic allocation towards other geographic areas. MPEP has a primary focus on buyout managers across all size brackets, to which Venture/Growth and Mezzanine type fund investments are added. MPEP is a member of the BVK and EVCA.

Competition samples
HarbourVest Partners is a private equity fund of funds and one of the largest private equity investment managers globally. The firm invests in all types of private equity funds, including venture capital and leveraged buyout funds, and also directly in operating companies. HarbourVest manages investments in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa.

Founded in 1982 as Hancock Venture Partners, a subsidiary of John Hancock Insurance, HarbourVest is based in Boston, Massachusetts with offices in London and Hong Kong. HarbourVest has approximately 80 investment professionals globally and manages approximately $18 billion of investor commitments.

Investors in HarbourVest funds include various types of institutional investors such as public and corporate pension funds, endowments, foundations and financial institutions.

In 2001,HarbourVest Partners got inducted to the Private Equity Hall of Fame.

Pantheon is a leading global private equity fund investor, operating through a series of fund of funds as well as a publicly traded private equity vehicle, Pantheon International Participations. Pantheon manages regional primary investments, global secondary and infrastructure investments and customised separate account programmes.

Pantheon has 180 employees with over US$23.6 billion in assets under management. The firm has operated as a subsidiary of Affiliated Managers Group Inc. ("AMG") since its acquisition in early 2010.

Originally formed in 1982 as the private equity investment division of GT Management in London, Pantheon's management acquired the private equity division in 1988 through a management buyout. Pantheon was then acquired by Russell Investments, an investment management subsidiary of Northwestern Mutual, in 2004.

In 2010, Pantheon was acquired by Affiliated Managers Group ("AMG"), a NYSE-listed asset management company with shareholdings in a diverse group of over 30 mid-sized asset management firms. Pantheon's management acquired a share of the equity in the transaction and is expected to maintain independent management of its business.

Pantheon develops and implements private equity investment strategies for more than 400 institutional investors globally, including public and private pension plans, endowments, foundations, and family offices.

Partners Group (swx: PGHN) is a global private markets management firm with over EUR 28 billion in investment programs under management in private equity, private debt, private real estate and private infrastructure. The firm manages a broad range of funds, structured products and customized portfolios for an international clientele of institutional investors, private banks and other financial institutions.

The firm, which was founded in 1996, is based in Zug, Switzerland with offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, São Paulo, Guernsey, Paris, Luxembourg, Munich, Dubai, Beijing, Seoul, Tokyo and Sydney. Partners Group is a joint stock company under Swiss law, listed on the Swiss Exchange since its 2006 initial public offering (minority floating). As of today, the majority of the shares is held by all employees and partners. Founding partners are Alfred Gantner, Marcel Erni and Urs Wietlisbach.

As of 30 November 2011, Partners Group has been included in the MSCI Switzerland Index after having been included in mid-September in the Swiss Small & Mid Cap Index (SMIM Index) which tracks the 50 biggest listed companies in Switzerland.

Investment approach

Partners Group makes direct investments in equity and debt of privately held companies, real estate objects and infrastructure projects. Additionally, the firm invests in existing assets on the secondary market and primary partnership investments across all sectors, industries and regions.

The investment approach is based on a combination of direct, secondary and primary investments in private equity, private real estate and private infrastructure. Investing in this manner allows the firm to provide broadly diversified portfolios to institutional clients across private markets and sectors.

Partners Group markets various investment funds to clients with customized geographic focus (Asia-Pacific, emerging markets, European growth, US venture, etc.), investment style (direct investment funds, secondary funds, etc.) and liquidity terms (limited partnerships, SICAVs, SICARs, etc.).