Sherpa appoints Medina as operating partner

Medina will join Sherpa's portfolio management team, tasked with adding value to the firm's investee companies by supporting management teams on their daily operations, and helping them transform and improve their businesses.

Medina has more than 20 years of experience in managing business transformation projects. Prior to joining Sherpa, he worked as CEO and chief financial officer of 25 industrial companies, most of them backed by different private equity funds and some of them in distressed situations. He has led several turnaround, growth capital and M&A deals.

More recently, Medina was CEO in Europe of Taghleef Industries, a specialist in developing and manufacturing special polypropylene films for the food, labels and graphic arts segments.

This announcement follows another recent appointment: the hire of Isaac Lahuerta as an investment director in the firm's special situations team.

Sherpa has recently held a €120m final close for its third special situations fund, Sherpa Special Situations III, which invests in Spanish and Portuguese companies facing distress, restructuring and business transformations.

The fund plans to make 8-10 investments, writing tickets in the €10-25m range in companies operating across a wide variety of sectors, with annual turnover of €20-300m.

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