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Five Arrows

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Five Arrows

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Five Arrows is the alternative assets arm of Rothschild & Co

Founded in 2009, we manage a series of funds primarily dedicated to corporate and secondaries private equity, as well as broadly syndicated loans and direct lending.

About Five Arrows

With global assets under management of €33 billion, Five Arrows manages a series of funds dedicated to corporate and secondary private equity, multi-managers funds and co-investments, as well as broadly syndicated loans and direct lending.

 

We focus on both Europe and North America, with a team of more than 320 people working across six offices – Paris, London, Luxembourg, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. We have a globally diversified group of investors comprised of institutions, corporations, international family offices and entrepreneurs from Europe, North America, and Asia who invest alongside the firm, its partners and the team.

Our strategies

Corporate Private Equity

Our Corporate Private Equity business focuses on investing in Europe and North America through a series of funds focused on the lower mid-market, mid-market and upper mid-market. 

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Multi Strategies

Our platform, Five Arrows Multi Strategies (FAMS), is dedicated to seizing the best opportunities globally through careful manager and portfolio selection.

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Direct Lending

Direct Lending provides customised senior and subordinated debt financing solutions to privately-owned businesses across the European mid-market.

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Credit Management

Credit Management manages secured, sub-investment grade credit across a range of European and North American funds and investment mandates.

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Our Investment approach

Our business is founded on three intertwined principles - our passion for investing, respect for risk, and culture of partnership - all of which define who we are today.

Passion for investing

The Rothschild family has an investing history dating back more than two centuries - particularly for backing entrepreneurs who the family felt were ahead of their times.

At Five Arrows we celebrate this legacy. So much so that a passion for investing is the single most important attribute we seek in our people. And we expend significant energy in ensuring that it remains the heart of our culture.

Respect for risk

Our investing ethos is centered on delivering attractive risk-adjusted returns to our investors. We are convinced that this is the only way to consistently create long-term value.

This approach is borne out of a long-held Rothschild & Co philosophy of wealth preservation through active avoidance of capital impairment.

Respect for risk does not mean we shun it - rather, this mindset reflects the importance we attach to a proper understanding, quantification and pricing of risk.

Culture of partnership

We aim to form close, enduring relationships with each of our stakeholders: our investors, our managers, our people, our advisers and financiers, and broadly the environment in which we work.

We invest significant amounts of capital alongside our investors in each of our funds. We actively encourage our managers to invest alongside us in the companies they run - and make it profitable and easy for them to do so. And we do the same for each of our investing professionals.

By ensuring that we all "put our money where our mouth is", we hope to create a close-knit ecosystem where all of our interests are fully aligned. Our aspiration is to have a culture of partnership with a shared sense of purpose and level of collaboration in every important decision we make.

Responsible investing

Five Arrows has built its reputation on providing the highest levels of excellence. To maintain this we have defined our guiding principles to encompass a responsible and sustainable approach to Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) standards.

Our Responsible Investing policy is focused on two main objectives:

  • Integrate ESG criteria in our investment decisions to create long term value for investors and support the development of a sustainable economy as a responsible investor

  • Pursue an ESG engagement policy to create a constructive dialogue with our companies and help them improve

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    6th Floor, Vintners Place, 68 Upper Thames Street, London, EC4V 3BJ United Kingdom

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  • Los Angeles

    1230 Rosecrans Ave., Suite 660, Manhattan Beach CA 90266, USA

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  • Luxembourg

    21 rue d’Epernay, L-1490 Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

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  • New York

    900 Third Avenue, 19th Floor, New York 10022, USA

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  • Paris

    18 rue de Courcelles, Paris 75008, France

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  • San Francisco

    555 California Street, Suite 4925, San Francisco, CA 94104 USA

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