Paul Orchard-Lisle is to join John Beckwith’s Europa Capital Partners to help him spend Û1bn.
The former Healey & Baker senior partner has been appointed a non-executive director of ECP.
ECP is chaired by Beckwith and operates from offices in London, Frankfurt, Barcelona and Paris. It advises Beckwith’s Û1bn Europa fund on investing in Western and Central Europe.
Orchard-Lisle said: “Europa has brought together a team of country partners throughout Europe, and this is a strong base from which to exploit the existing potential.”
The Europa Fund will invest in direct property and companies “where potential exists for active management” over a three-year period. Almost a third of the fund, Û300m, will be invested in Central Europe.
Charles Graham and Christopher Curtis, formerly of London & Edinburgh Trust, established ECP with Beckwith and former Insignia Richard Ellis director Noel Manns. Peter Cluff of Morgan Grenfell Private Equity will be finance director, and ex-St Quintin man Robert Martin and Robert Sloss from the United Bank of Kuwait have also been appointed.
The fund will be advised by local partners.
In Germany, these will be Gernot Gaulke and Christoph Gutmann of Project-Construct GmbH; in Austria and Hungary, Erwin Krause of Zwereze & Krause Group; in Spain, Marcus Donaldson, formerly of London & Metropolitan; in the Netherlands, Robert Mullin; in Poland, George Mula; and in France, Christopher Curtis.
