Conquest Advisory

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Conquest
Company type Limited Liability Partnership
Industry Investment Banking
Asset Management
Founded2010
Headquarters Hong Kong (Advisory)
London (Advisory)
Luxembourg
(Asset Management)
Website www.conquest.group

Conquest is an independent investment banking and asset management services firm founded in 2010 and owned by its directors. The head-office of its advisory services is registered in London, United Kingdom, and it has primary operations in Asia-Pacific, Continental Europe and Latin America. The head-office of its asset management business is registered in Luxembourg.

The company is mainly a generalist advisory firm which advises its clients - mainly corporations, partnerships, private equity firms and institutional investors - on mergers & acquisitions, build-up, divestitures, financings, capital raising, private placement and joint-ventures. It does not seem to focus specifically on a sector but rather on specific investment situations. Since 2014 it has been more active in industrials, infrastructure, energy - including renewables, [1] , [2] energy efficiency [3] - and transportation. [4] It appears to have also launched its fund management activity in relation to infrastructure investments. [5]

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References

  1. "Conquest Advisory LLP announced it successfully advised Solairedirect on sale of 2 solar power plants, confirming attractiveness of solar real assets for Institutional Investors". Yahoo Finance. 30 June 2015.
  2. "Conquest Advisory Advises Solairedirect". 4-Traders. 3 July 2015.
  3. "Qualisteo : après la Tour Eiffel… l'étranger". 6 July 2015.
  4. "Conquest Advisory LLP Successfully Advises Kapsch TrafficCom AG on its Agreement to Acquire the Global Transport Business of Schneider Electric". Reuters. December 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-12-22.
  5. "Conquest Launches Its Renewable Power Equity Fund With a "Super Bond" Profile Dedicated to Institutional Investors". Yahoo Finance. 16 January 2017.