Alantra buys 40% stake in MCH Investment Strategies

Alessia Argentieri
04 March 2021

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Alantra has acquired a 40% stake in MCH Investment Strategies.

MCH Investment Strategies is an asset management firm that specialises in the management, advisory and distribution of alternative investment funds for Spanish, Italian and Portuguese investors.

Founded in 2008, the firm has more than €3bn in assets under management.

MCH Investment Strategies was launched by Tasio del Castaño and Alejandro Sarrate with the support of MCH Private Equity.

Following this deal, MCH PE and MCH Investment Strategies will continue to operate as two independent entities.

By partnering with Alantra, MCH Investment Strategies plans to accelerate its growth, expand its geographical reach across Europe, enlarge its investor base through access to a wider pool of institutional investors, and further develop its product offering.

Through this partnership, Alantra expects to expand its financial service offering by adding a new business pillar to its investment banking, credit portfolio advisory and alternative asset management businesses.

Alantra is a global alternative asset management, investment banking and credit portfolio advisory firm focusing on providing financial services to companies, family offices and investors operating in the mid-market segment. The group is headquartered in Madrid and employs 540 professionals across Europe, the US, Latin America and Asia.

Alantra's assets under management in direct investments amount to €2.6bn, while funds-of-funds, co-investments and secondaries funds have raised €11.7bn since inception.

In the last few years, the firm has been diversifying and expanding its strategy with the acquisition of different asset managers.

It bought a strategic stake in fund-of-funds and secondaries manager Access Capital Partners in December 2018; purchased a 35% stake in VC firm Asabys Partners, which is backed by Banc Sabadell, in July 2019; signed a partnership with Grupo Mutua, which invested €45m in Alantra's AM arm in exchange for a 20% stake at the beginning of 2020; and acquired a 49% stake in Indigo Capital, a French private debt asset manager.