About
Vesper Infrastructure Partner
Vesper Infrastructure Partners was established in 2022 as fully independent infrastructure firm focused on value-add strategies for the European mid-market infrastructure space.
The firm is fully owned by the six founding partners: Livio Fenati, Alfredo Maria De Falco, Paola Rastelli, Giacomo Rossi, Guillermo Royo-Villanova, and Olaf Nordmeyer, who lead an experienced pan-European team with 150+ years of infrastructure experience across its 4 offices in London, Milan, Hambourg and Madrid.
Through their longstanding professional careers, the six founding members contribute a unique combination of industrial and investment experience, that has been built across different sectors, geographies, and economic cycles, executing more than EUR 200bn in infrastructure transactions and having invested as principal more than EUR 28Bn of direct equity investments across over 40 infrastructure companies.
Infrastructure Transaction Executed
200Billion
Direct Equity investments in Infrastructure
28Billion
Total managed fund
570Million
Combined industry experience
120+Years
Partners Owned
100%
Today, Vesper Infrastructure Partners is one of the few European players capable of providing its clients with:
A unique mix of industrial, operational and financial skills, developed over three decades of relevant transactional experience in key industries and themes of the value-add infrastructure space, such as: Energy systems and electrification of the economy; Transport industry and decarbonization of mobility; Telecom & Data infrastructures and businesses’ digitalisation; and emerging sustainable and circular business models.
A long-standing track record of origination, structuring, financing and delivering operational value creation across multiple infrastructure businesses in all key European economies.
A deep and widespread pan-European network of relationships with strategics, financial investors, operating directors and advisors, which provides unparalleled sourcing capabilities for Mid-Market value add opportunities
Since 2023, Vesper Infrastructure Partners acts as exclusive advisor in respect of Vesper Next Generation Infrastructure Fund I SCSp, a Luxembourg alternative investment fund managed by Sanne LIS S.A.
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Funding principles
Value-add
Investment Philosophy
Vesper Infrastructure Partners applies a distinctive and proven value-add investment philosophy that has been refined and tested over decades of infrastructure investing. Our approach is built around three main pillars:
Megatrends and Key Investment Themes
Continuous monitoring of transformative megatrends and proactive identification of infrastructure companies benefiting from such forcesMegatrend acts as a strong catalyst for change and disruptions which are capable of triggering material growth potential across different industries and sectors of the economy. Vesper focuses on the proactive identification of target companies active in key infrastructure segments / investment themes, which shows clear exposure to relevant megatrends and benefit from their growth and return generation potential.
Centrality of Capital Protection
Focus on robust capital protection featuresAs the concept of the infrastructure assets evolves from the original notion of the asset class (which was mainly focused on fully regulated-availability based energy asset or concession based transport assets), to include a growing number companies active in multiple new sectors (i.e. logistic platforms, TLC towers, broadband networks), it has become of paramount importance to ensure that potential target companies are closely screened to attest those intrinsic “infrastructure characteristics”, which are required to deliver robust capital protection and retain attractive risk adjusted returns for investors. 
Industrial High Performing Governance
Value creation through implementation of a proprietary industrial, high-performance, governance frameworkOver the last two decades the founders of Vesper Infrastructure Partners have developed an industrial value creation playbook which is used to bring discipline and accelerate the execution of the envisaged business transformation and value creation strategy
Who We Are
Team Behind the Thesis
We have decades of investment operational experience across sectors, geographies, and economic cycles.
Founder & Partners
Livio FenatiFounder and Managing Partner, CEO
Alfredo Maria De FalcoManaging Partner, Founder
Paola RastelliManaging Partner, Founder
Giacomo RossiCo-founder and Partner, Interim-CFO
Olaf NordmeyerCo-founder and Partner
Guillermo Royo-VillanovaCo-founder and Partner
Team
Martina ZanellatoInvestment Associate
Alexis LagorceInvestment Associate
Andrea MonteduroInvestment Associate
Nicola Di NardoInvestment Associate
Astrid Schulte-HuermannInvestment Associate
Larissa SchreursFInance & Operations Manager
Frances BaxterHead of ESG
Ivano CordellaDirector
Thorsten JungfleischDirector
Fiona AhlendorfDirector