Capital Trust Group

Capital Trust Group is a private equity firm specializing in real estate and corporate finance advisory services. Founded in 1985 and incorporated in Luxembourg, the firm operates in the United Kingdom, United States, Middle East, North Africa, and Europe. It has managed 10 funds to date and has offices in London, Beirut, and Florida. The firm's primary objective is to source investments that will produce superior risk-adjusted returns for the Group and its clients.

The firm acts as the lead investor in transactions, as well as a co-investor with other financial institutions. It provides advisory and investment banking services to its clients with respect to investments in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. The Group's Directors have accumulated significant investment, financing, and mergers and acquisitions experience, and several of the Directors have held senior management positions in other organizations and operating companies. They have known each other and worked together for many years and have developed reputations, within their respective disciplines, for integrity, insight, and professionalism.

Capital Trust Group's clients include many of its former shareholders, along with other institutions and individuals residing primarily in the Arabian Gulf. The Group has acted as lead investor and as co-investors in more than 100 transactions with a total value exceeding $1.5 billion in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. In MENA, the Group has raised capital for MENAVEST ($54 million), the first MENA private equity fund, launched in 1998 and the first regional private equity fund. The fund managed to close and exit all eleven investments.