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About ICG
Perfect Fit Finance
In 1989, six experienced investment professionals joined together with a shared vision: to be the leading global partners for sub-investment grade finance and in particular mezzanine finance.
Since then we have invested in a wide variety of transactions worth more than €9.6bn and are recognised as a leading independent provider of mezzanine finance in Europe with a growing presence in Asia-Pacific and North America.
To our banking and PE counterparties, we are intelligent, safe, resourceful and responsive. Our unparalleled experience in the field of intermediate debt lets us assess and structure the perfect solution.
Strategy and Success to Date
To fund managers, we provide an invaluable channel to a wide range of large, reliable investment opportunities in Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America through our Credit Fund Management, leveraged loan and mezzanine funds. Because we are acknowledged to have a robust credit culture in the market, our selected investments are relatively secure. Our aim is to provide investors with outstanding stable returns in every fund asset class.
To business leaders needing finance, we are a long-term creative partner, able to structure debt from both funds and balance sheet that best matches the various needs of preserving equity, improving cash flow and reducing debt costs to develop a business.
Not only do we have a special ability to design tailored debt solutions, but our business model also provides the 'perfect fit' between our fund investors and the senior debt providers, private equity houses and the businesses we serve. Our objective is to provide the ideal finance solution for the task in hand.
Our unique reputation in the marketplace derives from our rigorous credit culture and from the commitment and consistency with which we select our investments. We work in close partnership with management teams, sharing their aspirations and helping them to realise them in the long-term.
"We have the advantage of permanent capital, which means that our interest is in holding these assets for six, eight, nine years. This is not possible or true necessarily of a CDO or a hedge fund, which has got a much shorter time frame.
In addition, we've got a very wide geographic reach and with experienced teams in Continental Europe, Asia Pacific and North America. So it's a very local marketplace and with our size, our agility and our 'partnership approach', we think we have a big advantage." — Tom Attwood, Managing Director
We invest substantial amounts from our own capital resources but we also invest funds that we manage on behalf of a number of international institutions.
Our multinational executives are based in London, Paris, Hong Kong, Stockholm, Frankfurt , Madrid, Sydney, New York and Amsterdam and, in addition, we have native speakers covering the Italian and Polish markets. We have always attached great importance to the breadth of our combined experience and the diverse backgrounds of our executives enables us to invest confidently in a wide range of sectors and geographical markets.
Intermediate Capital Group is a fully independent UK public company, listed on the London Stock Exchange, and the only public company dedicated to this market.
"Long-term, we've got a very strong economic model here. We've got some fabulous people. We believe that so long as we can keep those people, maintain our credit disciplines then, in the long term, we can be confident of the future of this business." — Tom Attwood, Managing Director