Established in 2008, Cygnum Capital Group is an Investment Bank operating across frontier and emerging markets globally, with two principal subsidiaries: Cygnum Capital Asset Management, which carries out investment management activities, and Cygnum Capital Advisory, which focuses on financial advisory and capital raising services. They provide tailored and innovative financial solutions across multiple sectors, leveraging their global relationships and networks, and local market understanding, to deliver the best financial solutions to our client's diverse challenges.
Fully regulated in the UK, EU and UAE, the firm has offices in London, Nairobi, Lagos, Amsterdam and Dubai, with a diverse and dynamic team of over 70 finance professionals who provide deep sectoral expertise, a broad product offering, and the ability to leverage the synergies between their corporate finance, asset management, and advisory activities. Their client base is global and includes governments, multilateral institutions, development finance institutions, corporations, as well as development agencies and foundations. Their clients want to work with them because they have a reputation for excellence and consistently deliver top quality outcomes.
Whilst the Cygnum Capital team work across emerging and frontier markets globally, they have a specific focus on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), where their historic experience and local presence gives them a deep understanding of those markets and their relationship with the development and investor communities. They combine strong macroeconomic skills, and expertise from working with the rating agencies, MDBs, and DFIs, with deep sectoral knowledge in power and infrastructure finance, renewable energy, sustainable finance, impact investing, sovereign advisory, livelihoods, nutrition, real estate, climate, and gender finance.
Sustainable development and inclusive growth is at the core of the work they perform, as is their culture of putting their clients first, delivering outstanding products and services, and upholding the highest professional standards. They understand that financial markets play an important role in supporting economic growth and development, and in addressing the global socio-economic and environmental challenges that this, and future generations, will face. To that end, whilst Cygnum Capital is a commercial enterprise, they fully understand that long-term profitability can only be achieved through an unwavering commitment to corporate social responsibility that goes beyond regulatory and legal compliance, and includes ethical behaviour and philanthropy. All activities undertaken by Cygnum Capital reflect these fundamental values.
