SWEN Capital Partners is an investment management firm driven by an objective of creating sustainable value through the full integration of environmental, social, or governance (ESG) criteria into any administrative or investment action. SWEN Capital Partners strives to offer investors the best performances, both financial and extra-financial, along with high-quality, transparent and tailored service.
Active in the sectors of Private Equity, Infrastructure and Private Debt, SWEN Capital Partners invests through the following operations: "Primary" (selection of funds), "Secondary" (redemptions or fund portfolios) and "direct investments" (acquisition of direct equity stakes alongside managing partners or mezzanine managers). Furthermore, in 2019, SWEN Capital Partners launched SWEN Impact Fund for Transition, the first direct impact infrastructure fund dedicated to green gas energy in Europe. SWEN Capital Partners offers a wide range of open and dedicated investment programmes for institutional and retail clients, as well as value-added services for portfolio monitoring and follow-up.
As a PRI signatory, SWEN Capital Partners has deployed an active and rigorous responsible investment approach. Since 2012 the company formalised an approach to integrating ESG criteria that is now applied to all investments. SWEN Capital Partners’ ESG commitment is expressed in other ways – it uses its unparalleled extra-financial private equity database to calculate its own private equity ESG benchmarks and to produce exhaustive ESG reports for each fund, along with a mechanism for detecting controversies, an ambitious and high-standard Climate Strategy, and active partnerships with all its stakeholders.
SWEN CP's Responsible Investment strategy and approach is publicly available on its website in its Responsible Investment Policy, Charter and in its Energy and Climate Transition reporting (in compliance with French regulation – article 173 de la LTEE). In 2019, SWEN Capital Partners started the process of implementing the TCFD recommendations.
SWEN CP also acts as an active promoter of responsible investment practices within sector-specific initiatives and throughout the publication of ESG studies.
Based on its values of authenticity, excellence, boldness, goodwill, and perseverance, SWEN Capital Partners is backed in its missions by a team of 45 people, including experts having over 15 years of private equity and infrastructure experience. The professional background of this stable and experienced team is a valuable asset to understand the needs and restrictions of its clients which are mainly comprised of insurance companies, mutual companies, banks, state-owned banks, etc.