All Seas Capital appoints Nordic-focused Managing Director to investment team
26 June 2024: All Seas Capital, a pan-European private capital fund that provides transformational capital solutions to leading founder- and entrepreneur-owned companies, today announced that Pär Pettersson has joined the investment team as a Managing Director. Pär will be based in Stockholm, strengthening the firm’s presence in the Nordics.
With over 20 years of experience in investing, Pär has a proven track record and extensive expertise in SME investment, notably in the Nordic region. He joins from Kopparvågen Invest, where he focused on investments in founder owned companies in the Nordic market. Prior to that, he worked at Stirling Square Capital in London with responsibility for Nordic investment activities. Pär was also in the investment teams at KCP and 3i Buyouts, having started his career at UBS Investment Bank in London.
Pär holds a Master of Science in Economics and Business with major in Finance from Stockholm School of Economics (SSE).
Marc Ciancimino and Cristobal Cuart, Co-Founders of All Seas Capital, said:
“We are delighted to welcome Pär Pettersson to the team. He has deep European investment experience, particularly in the Nordics, and a proven track record. He joins our investment team at an exciting time, having closed our maiden fund and expanded the All Seas Capital team.”
All Seas Capital provides flexible long-term financing solutions to leading Western European mid-market businesses. Alongside transformational capital solutions, the All Seas Capital team provides board level expertise to entrepreneurs and management teams who do not want to sell majority stakes.
Last year, the firm closed its maiden fund with total commitments of US$400m including coinvestments and has since made a number of new appointments to the team and announced a raft of promotions. All Seas Capital I has invested over US$311m in portfolio companies Attivo Group (UK), G3 (UK), Hakim Group (UK), Nurture Group (UK), Reducate (Netherlands/Denmark), SoMeD Santé (France) and Zimmer MedizinSysteme (Germany).
All Seas Capital is led by Marc Ciancimino and Cristobal Cuart who co-founded and led KKR’s European mezzanine and preferred equity business and have an extensive career track record, with €3.4bn invested across 45 businesses prior to founding All Seas Capital.
For further information, please contact:
All Seas Capital
Charlotte Balbirnie
+44 7989 528421
About All Seas Capital
All Seas Capital is a pan-European private capital fund that provides flexible long-term financing solutions to leading mid cap companies. The team is led by Marc Ciancimino and Cristobal Cuart who co-founded and led KKR’s European mezzanine and preferred equity business. All Seas Capital’s hybrid strategy, investing a combination of debt and equity, integrates ESG considerations throughout its investment process to help position its portfolio for long term, sustained growth.
We partner with and provide transformational capital solutions and board level expertise to Western European entrepreneur- and family-owned mid-market businesses who need strategic capital, but do not want to sell majority stakes. We identify businesses that already have a certain amount of scale but are in need of support and capital as the catalyst for real business growth.