Steven Zehr appointed Partner at Stafford Infrastructure
London and Zurich, 20 July 2022 – Stafford Capital Partners (“Stafford”), a leading international private markets investment and advisory group, has promoted Steven Zehr in the Zurich office from Principal to Partner for Stafford Infrastructure.
Steven joined Stafford in 2018. As a senior investment professional and member of the Stafford Infrastructure Investment Committee, he is focused on sourcing, evaluating, and structuring secondary investments, including LP- and GP-led transactions, and co-investments.
Steven has over sixteen years of investment and transaction experience in real assets and private equity. Prior to joining Stafford, he worked in a number of different principal investment roles with global insurers and reinsurers, including XL Catlin and Swiss Re, where he built portfolios comprising of direct investments, co-investments and fund investments.
William Greene, Managing Partner Stafford Infrastructure, said:
“This promotion is very much deserved, Steven has been a key member of the team ever since he joined. Our investments into high-quality core infrastructure continue to go from strength to strength with numerous transactions already completed this year. I look forward to continuing the great work with Steven in sourcing suitable secondary opportunities as well as co-investments and GP-led transactions, which are a key priority for Stafford.”
Steven commented:
“I am honoured and excited about becoming a Partner at Stafford. I am impressed with our team and platform, and with the track record that Stafford Infrastructure has built for over ten years as an early mover in infrastructure secondaries. The growth and increasing sophistication of the infrastructure secondaries market makes this an extremely interesting time to support our business into the next era.”
About Stafford Capital Partners
Stafford Capital Partners (“Stafford”) is an independent private markets investment and advisory firm with USD %%AuM%%bn in assets under management and advice* for more than %%numClients%% institutional clients worldwide. Founded in 2000, it has a global team of 80+ professionals investing in infrastructure, timberland, agriculture & food and sustainable private equity through secondaries, primaries, and co-investments. Stafford has been a UN PRI signatory since 2010 and has committed to the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative. It puts sustainability at the centre of its investment process and implements a well-defined ESG program across all strategies. In the UK, Stafford is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (Firm Reference Number: 225586).
* As of 30 September 2023
About Stafford Infrastructure
Stafford Infrastructure provides asset class investment solutions with a focus on lower risk, higher yielding core infrastructure assets in developed markets.
The team’s investment strategy specialises in infrastructure fund secondary transactions. Infrastructure secondaries allow investors to access mature, yielding portfolios. Secondary transactions are generally concluded at a discount a fund’s net asset value. Secondaries also avoid exposure to blind pool investment risk or J-curve investment performance that is evident in primary fund investments.
Stafford Infrastructure has been an early investor in infrastructure secondaries since 2012. Through its relationships across a range of general partners in infrastructure, it maintains a wide database of funds that forms the foundation of the team’s due diligence and investment management process.