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Christopher Howe is a founder and managing partner of Indigo Capital, with responsibility for investments in the UK and Nordic region.
Christopher has overall responsibility for the firm’s financial control and human resource functions, as well as for the legal aspects relating to the firm’s fundraising activities.
After graduating as a BSc in 1980 from Loughborough University of Technology, Christopher worked for 4 years at the UK merchant bank Guinness Mahon.
He moved to merchant bank Kleinwort Benson’s UK corporate lending division in 1984 and, five years later, transferred internally to a new team to establish and manage the bank’s first European mezzanine fund.
From 1989 to 1999, Christopher worked in the European mezzanine capital team at Kleinwort Benson.
He left there in 1999 as a director to co-found Indigo Capital with three close colleagues.
Christopher J. Howe active positions
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Indigo Capital LLP
 Indigo Capital LLP Investment ManagersFinance Indigo Capital LLP is an active, medium- to long-term manager which specializes in providing mezzanine capital to small- and medium-sized European businesses undergoing management buyouts, corporate acquisitions, expansion or recapitalization in a variety of sectors including commodities & chemicals, financial services, food & agriculture, healthcare, IT & telecoms, leisure, manufacturing, media, services and trading. They often invest alongside private equity firms, and also invest independently when appropriate situations arise requiring mezzanine financing. The firm typically seeks to invest €10 million in businesses with established market positions, strong, ambitious and incentivised management and attractive growth prospects and can arrange and underwrite investments of up to €100 million. | Chief Investment Officer | 01/01/1999 |
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Indigo Capital LLP
Indigo Capital LLP Investment ManagersFinance Indigo Capital LLP is an active, medium- to long-term manager which specializes in providing mezzanine capital to small- and medium-sized European businesses undergoing management buyouts, corporate acquisitions, expansion or recapitalization in a variety of sectors including commodities & chemicals, financial services, food & agriculture, healthcare, IT & telecoms, leisure, manufacturing, media, services and trading. They often invest alongside private equity firms, and also invest independently when appropriate situations arise requiring mezzanine financing. The firm typically seeks to invest €10 million in businesses with established market positions, strong, ambitious and incentivised management and attractive growth prospects and can arrange and underwrite investments of up to €100 million. | Finance |
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