Stafford Capital Partners raises over EUR 450m for infrastructure secondaries investment
July 7, 2021
Stafford Capital Partners (“Stafford”) announced today that it had raised over EUR 450m for its fourth dedicated infrastructure secondaries fund – Stafford Infrastructure Secondaries Fund IV (SISF IV).
The specialist real assets and private markets manager held a third close of SISF IV, welcoming five investors into the fund. The close builds on two successful previous closes in August and December 2020. SISF IV has a fundraising target of EUR 750m and hard cap of EUR 1bn. It is expected to remain open to investors throughout 2021. The fund acquires interests in existing core infrastructure funds, predominately in Europe, North America and Australasia. SISF IV has already committed over 20% of capital commitments in a highly diversified portfolio of yielding infrastructure assets that comprises 115 underlying assets and 10 fund vintages.
William Greene, Managing Partner and Head of Infrastructure, commented:
“We are very grateful for the support we have received from both our new and existing investors. Our focused secondaries strategy has resonated strongly with investors looking to access quality assets at a value not readily achievable in the direct market. Furthermore, by focusing on core operational infrastructure assets we are able to mitigate blind pool risk, while offer investors immediate cash yield.”
Following the third close of SISF IV, Stafford Capital Partners has successfully raised over USD 1bn across its real asset strategies of infrastructure, timberland and agriculture & food in the past 6 months.
For more information, please contact Stafford Investor Relations:
Email: InvestorRelations@staffordcp.com
About Stafford Capital Partners: Stafford Capital Partners (“Stafford”) is an independent private markets investment and advisory firm with more than USD %%AuM%%bn in assets under management and advice* for more than %%numClients%% institutional clients worldwide. Founded in 2000, we are a global team of 70+ professionals investing in infrastructure, timberland, agriculture & food and sustainable private equity through secondaries, primaries, and co-investments. As UN PRI signatory since 2010 we put sustainability at the centre of our investment process and implement a well-defined ESG program across all strategies.
* As of 30 September 2023