
Waterland opens office in Copenhagen
Dutch GP Waterland Private Equity Investments is opening a new office in Copenhagen, targeting buy-and-build opportunities in the Nordic region.
The firm plans to deploy capital from its seventh fund, which held a final close on €2bn in August.
"Right now, the focus is to build a team and get it on the ground. We will then look potential add-on acquisitions for our portfolio outside the Nordics, and then start looking at platform investments in the region," recently appointed managing director Kaspar Kristiansen told unquote”.
Waterland’s fund would enable the investment team to take on both large and small investments. But the team in Denmark is more likely to build smaller investments into larger platforms as opposed to doing a limited number of larger deals, Kristiansen said.
The new office is the firm's seventh across five countries, with other operations in Manchester, the Dutch city of Bussum, Antwerp, Düsseldorf, Munich and Warsaw.
The development comes six months after the GP opened its sixth office – in Manchester – to capitalise on Brexit opportunities in the UK. In addition, the Düsseldorf office will be transfered to Hamburg in early 2018.
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