Ambienta is a sustainability-focused European asset manager and a leader in applying environmental sustainability trends to investing.
Founded in 2007, Ambienta is one of the largest and most experienced sustainability investors. Operating out of Milan, London, Paris and Munich, Ambienta is focused on investing in private and public companies driven by environmental megatrends.
Today, there is a €3 trillion+ European sustainability-driven investment opportunity, supported by indisputable long-term drivers. Companies whose products and services address global environmental issues of Resource Efficiency and Pollution Control and thus reinforce their long term competitive advantage. Sustainability drives value.
We are an independent partnership and manage more than €3.0bn of assets, in private equity, private credit and public markets. Our investor base consists of a diversified mix of blue-chip global investors, which include insurance companies, banks, pension funds, foundations and asset managers.
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Ambienta CreditPrivate Debt
Ambienta Credit takes a flexible approach to investing in credit, looking for European environmental sustainability champions regardless of sector, by leveraging on Ambienta’s platform network and environmental expertise.
Ambienta has a clear investment approach, focused on capturing the opportunity presented by the intersection of long-term secular environmental trends within the universe of European lower-mid and mid-market companies.
Ambienta Credit represents a natural evolution of Ambienta’s strategy, given its pan-European and sector-agnostic approach and its exclusive focus on environmental sustainability.
Ambienta Credit combines Ambienta’s knowledge-based sourcing approach, platform synergies and existing credit relationships to identify transactions with superior risk-return profiles. We act as a partner to borrowers and owners, providing management teams access to our leading in-house ESG and sustainability professionals, as well as the credibility and validation that it provides to a company’s sustainability thesis.
From Ambienta’s interactions with European mid-market environmental corporate champions, we identified that many of them appreciated Ambienta’s insight and value-add, but were not ready to enter into a private equity transaction. Offering them credit financing solutions to help them grow their leading businesses is therefore complementary to our offering.
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Ambienta targets niche European SMEs driven by environmental themes, with scalable and profitable business models, growing international end-markets and strong and differentiated market positions.
We leverage our local presence and connectivity to identify hard to access European SMEs. Our companies provide services or products that utilise resources more efficiently or reduce pollution, supported by a secular tail-wind of growth. We are a majority-oriented investor and we empower our management teams, who invest alongside us to ensure full alignment of interests. We like working with entrepreneurs and family businesses: primary transactions account for over 90% of our investments.
We aim to deliver top tier financial returns alongside solid and measured Environmental Impact through our proprietary methodology, the Environmental Impact Analysis (EIA).
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