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Élysée
Capital

Maison Privée de Gestion de Fortune — Depuis 1996

Family Office — Since 1996

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A multi-generational institution where sovereign discretion meets exceptional performance. We preserve, grow, and transform the wealth of the world's most discerning families. As a trusted bridge between the world's most dynamic economies—with particular depth across the GCC and Greater China—and the US and Europe, we access exclusive investment opportunities that remain closed to others.

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30 Years of Excellence
$12.5B+ Capital Invested Since Inception
3rd Generation Family Board
38 Countries of Operation
12 International Awards
$7.2B Capital Fund Partnerships
⚜ 1996 Fondée à Paris
III Generation
Family Office

A Legacy of
Quiet Excellence

Founded in the Duchy of Luxembourg in 1996 by six ultra-high-net-worth families, Élysée Capital has been the trusted guardian of multigenerational wealth for the world's most distinguished houses. Our family office is not a product—it is an exclusive covenant with history.

We understand that extraordinary wealth demands extraordinary stewardship. With absolute discretion, deeply personalised investments, and an unwavering commitment to strategic thinking, we cover every dimension of the financial and personal lives of our families—from estate architecture to generational heritage, from philanthropic strategy to bespoke lifestyle services worthy of our historical households. As such, our team comprises the brightest private equity and private wealth principals, all former directors from the most exclusive financial institutions of the world.

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Proprietary Deal Flow

We operate where public markets do not reach. Our senior principal directors source and structure private transactions—selective buyouts, strategic co-investments, and pre-IPO allocations—which are reserved exclusively for our families and our privileged institutional partners.

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An Unrivalled Global Network

Cultivated over three generations, our network encompasses heads of sovereign wealth, chairmen and women of multinational institutions, and the stewards of the world's most impactful private fortunes—granting our families privileged access to relationships that cannot be acquired, only inherited.

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Principal-Led Investment Stewardship

At our family office, nothing is delegated. Every mandate is internally overseen by our senior principals, who hold active board-level presence across portfolio companies—ensuring unconditional alignment of interest, unwavering accountability, and the standard of care befitting our families' invested capital.

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Three Decades of Exceptional Performance

Since 1996, our funds have delivered returns that have consistently and materially exceeded global benchmarks—through every cycle of expansion, contraction, and disruption. Our performance is not a product of fortune, but of rigour, selectivity, and a long-term investment philosophy forged by proprietary quantitative modelling.

Our History

Three Decades of Milestones

⚜1996

The Founding Mandate — $900M AUM

Born from the singular vision of a former Vice-President of Switzerland's most prestigious private wealth institution, Élysée Capital is founded not as a conventional family office—but as a standard to place its family partners at the forefront of investment opportunities that the public markets cannot generate, and that institutional gatekeepers refuse to disclose.

⚜2002

The Two Dragons Fund — $880M

Élysée Capital takes its first decisive step onto the global stage. The Two Dragons Fund is not merely a capital vehicle—it is a statement of intent. Launched at a moment when few Western institutions possessed the relationships or the conviction to navigate private markets bridging the United States and China, this fund delivered outsized returns by operating precisely where others could not follow.

⚜2009

Two Dragons Fund II — $2.8B

Where others saw market downturns, Élysée Capital saw opportunity. As the global financial crisis dismantled the confidence of an entire generation of investors, our family office deployed capital with disciplined conviction into deeply hidden private markets across technological industries connecting the United States and China. The Two Dragons Fund II stands as one of our most defining chapters—a testament to the enduring advantage of patient, relationship-driven investments privileged by our family office.

⚜2012

Two Dragons Fund III — $4.6B

A decade of compounding trust, proprietary deal flow, and principal-led execution culminates in the Two Dragons Fund III—our largest and most sophisticated Sino-American mandate to date. With deep board-level presence across portfolio companies on both sides of the Pacific, Élysée Capital cements its reputation as the preeminent private gateway for families who demand more than performance: they demand access that cannot be bought, only earned.

⚜2019

The Malacca Fund — $3.8B

Long before Southeast Asia captured the attention of the world's largest private funds, Élysée Capital was already present—cultivating relationships, identifying structural opportunities, and preparing the ground for what would become the Malacca Fund. Spanning India, Indonesia, and Malaysia, the fund unlocks a new geography of proprietary private investment for our partner families, at a valuation inflection point that only the most exclusive investors would appreciate.

⚜2026

The Avicenna Fund — (TBA)

The United Arab Emirates is not only a country of sovereign wealth—it has become the most consequential arena for private capital formation in the world. Élysée Capital enters Abu Dhabi not as a newcomer, but as an institution whose network of prominent families, sovereign wealth funds, and industrial leaders spans the GCC's most influential circles. The Avicenna Fund represents our most ambitious mandate to date, and an invitation extended only to those already within our circle of investors.

Family Private Equity

Capital Deployed with
Conviction

Élysée Capital operates as a committed principal investor, deploying our own families' capital alongside that of a carefully curated circle of institutional partners and sovereign co-investors. We do not open our funds to the public. We partner with exclusive institutions that share our generational horizon.

Our approach draws from the most rigorous traditions of the world's preeminent private capital investors —patient, conviction-driven, operationally engaged. We invest in companies where our network, expertise, and capital create remarkable returns for all stakeholders.

Investor Relations
$11.4B Total Capital Deployed

Across buyouts, growth equity, and credit strategies since inception

3.3× Gross MOIC

Weighted average multiple on invested capital across all realised investments

87 Portfolio Companies

Active investments across Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia

34.7% Net IRR

Since-inception net internal rate of return, net of all fees and carried interest

Investment Strategies

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Control Buyouts

Acquiring controlling stakes in established mid-market companies. We bring operational expertise, governance transformation, and strategic adjacency to accelerate value creation.

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Growth Equity

We invest in high-growth businesses at inflection points. We partner with visionary founders who require more than capital—they require a trusted and experienced institution as co-pilot.

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Co-Investment & Club Deals

Exclusive deal access for our family and institutional partners. We curate select co-investment opportunities with superior economics and minimal blind-pool risk.

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Real Assets

Strategic exposure to infrastructure, premium real estate, and energy transition assets in key global markets, offering resilient yield and capital appreciation.

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Special Situations

Opportunistic deployment in complex, time-sensitive transactions where our speed of decision, discretion, and proprietary networks create decisive advantages.

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Venture & Deep Tech

Selective exposure to frontier technologies—artificial intelligence, quantum computing, fintech, and biotechnology—through our curated venture portfolio and LP positions.

Investment Universe

Sectors of Focus

Our investment thesis is anchored in secular growth trends and structural transformations reshaping the global economy. We concentrate capital where our insight and network create durable advantage.

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Financial Services

Next-generation banking, payments infrastructure, insurance innovation, and the digitisation of global capital markets.

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Energy Transition

Renewable infrastructure, battery storage, green hydrogen, and carbon markets. Investing in the architecture of a decarbonised world.

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Healthcare & Life Sciences

Precision medicine, biopharmaceuticals, digital health, and innovative medical technology across European and Asian markets.

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Premium Real Estate

Irreplaceable addresses — Mayfair, Central Park South, the 8th arrondissement, Saadiyat, Azabu, and the Former French Concession. Locations where scarcity is permanent and values only rise.

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Technology & AI

Enterprise software, artificial intelligence infrastructure, cybersecurity, and next-generation connectivity across global markets.

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Luxury & Experiences

Heritage luxury brands, ultra-premium hospitality, experiential travel, and the collectibles economy serving ultra-high-net-worth clientele.

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Agriculture & Food Security

Strategic land, precision agriculture technology, and supply chain infrastructure serving sovereign food security mandates and institutional portfolios.

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Global Infrastructure

Airports, ports, digital infrastructure, and transport networks offering long-duration, inflation-linked cash flows and strategic national importance.

Advisory Department

Sovereign Economic
Strategy & Counsel

Beyond the stewardship of our families' private wealth, Élysée Capital maintains a dedicated advisory department for co-investing partners that operates at the intersection of statecraft, capital markets architecture, and institutional investor relations — advising our co-investing partner sovereign institutions in emerging market strategy.

"We study the behaviour of institutional capital in geopolitically sensitive markets and the policy instruments that preserve it. Our counsel is sought not only because we co-invest — but because our advice protects the investments of future generations, private and institutional."

Our advisory principals bring decades of experience across sovereign debt markets, macroeconomic policy design, capital markets structuring, and the governance of state-owned enterprises. We serve as a confidential strategic partner to ministries of economy & finance, central banks, sovereign wealth funds, and the institutions that shape the architecture of national economies.

Élysée Capital does not offer conventional consultancy. We embed ourselves within the decision-making apparatus of sovereign institutions as investment partners — providing the analytical rigour, transactional discipline, and geopolitical fluency required to navigate the most consequential economic undertakings of our era.

Pillar I

Sovereign Economic Strategy

We advise governments on macroeconomic stabilisation, SOE consolidation, and the design of long-horizon economic policy programmes — crafting frameworks that satisfy the requirements of multilateral creditors while advancing national investment objectives.

Pillar II

Capital Markets Architecture

We structure and advise on sovereign and quasi-sovereign debt issuances, innovative financing instruments, and capital-raising strategies across public and private markets — ensuring optimal pricing, terms, and portfolio diversification for sovereign wealth funds.

Pillar III

Institutional Investor Relations

We manage the strategic relationship between sovereign investors and global finance — shaping market perception, credit narrative, and the positioning of national economies within international capital markets.

Mandate Areas

Where sovereign interests
demand precision

Sovereign Wealth Fund Governance

Establishment, mandate design, asset allocation frameworks, and board governance for state investment vehicles — drawing on our direct experience structuring sovereign-grade funds for our own principals.

Debt Management & Restructuring

Comprehensive sovereign debt advisory — from sustainability analysis and liability management to creditor engagement and the negotiation of restructuring programmes alongside the IMF and official bilateral lenders.

Credit Rating Advisory

Strategic counsel on sovereign creditworthiness, rating agency engagement, and the presentation of macroeconomic narratives that accurately reflect a nation's fiscal trajectory and reform commitment.

State-Owned Enterprise Reform

Performance optimisation, governance restructuring, and privatisation strategies for state-owned assets — including dual-track IPO and M&A processes designed to maximise value while preserving strategic national interests.

Geopolitical Risk & Capital Flows

Analysis of the behaviour of institutional capital under conditions of geopolitical stress — advising on policy instruments, sanctions navigation, and the preservation of investor confidence in sensitive markets.

Development Finance & ESG Issuance

Advisory on sustainable financing frameworks, ESG-linked sovereign bond issuances, and engagement with multilateral development banks — aligning national development priorities with the expectations of impact-oriented institutional capital.

In sovereign finance, the margin between stability and crisis is measured not in percentage points, but in the quality of counsel at the table when investment decisions are made."

— Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank
About Us

Internationally Recognised
Funds

Our funds operate at the apex of financial and quantitative analysis. We partner with sovereign wealth funds, international banks, and other family offices on the most consequential capital allocation decisions of our era.

Recognised internationally with over a dozen industry awards, Élysée Capital has established, structured, and seeded funds in partnership with sovereign institutions across the OECD and Southeast Asia. Our performance is sought where the stakes are highest and where error is not an option.

The calibre of their quantitative fund modelling and their bridging of the East-West investment landscape is exceptional for a family office—they are the lead engineers of private financial architecture."

— Xiao Jie, Chinese Minister of Finance, 2018
Areas of Expertise

Where precision meets consequence

Sovereign Wealth Fund Architecture

Our principals have co-designed and seeded bespoke sovereign-grade investment vehicles for our own families — from governance mandates to board composition — structures that rival those of the world's largest state institutions.

Quantitative Finance

We deploy proprietary factor models and risk premia strategies built in-house by our principals to generate absolute returns across our family portfolios in the most demanding market environments.

National Development Finance

Our families co-invest directly alongside development finance institutions, channelling patient private capital into high-conviction emerging market opportunities that institutional capital alone cannot efficiently access.

Cross-Border M&A

Our principals navigate multi-jurisdictional acquisitions directly, bringing discretion and resolve to politically complex and privately negotiated transactions that require more than conventional advisory.

Debt Capital Markets

We structure and selectively acquire sovereign and ESG-linked instruments across global capital markets, managing our families' fixed income exposure with institutional-grade precision and long-term conviction.

Portfolio Risk & Stress Testing

Our in-house risk principals run continuous scenario analysis and tail-risk modelling across our families' consolidated portfolios, spanning jurisdictions, asset classes, and regulatory regimes.

To Those Who Have Been
Referred to Our Funds

Élysée Capital exists at the quiet intersection of three of the world's most consequential economies. We serve as the confidential conduit between distinguished American markets, GCC capital, and extraordinary opportunities arising from Chinese industry — orchestrating investments of scale, substance, and lasting significance.

Our firm was founded upon a singular conviction: that the most meaningful alliances between East and West are forged not in public markets, but in the private chambers where trust is the prevailing currency. We construct bespoke family investment vehicles — private capital funds designed exclusively for ultra-high-net-worth families and sovereign principals — each structured with the precision and discretion that our patrons rightfully demand.

Our Provenance

Our Provenance

Élysée Capital was established by a former Senior Vice-President within Switzerland's most venerable private wealth institution — a house whose name is synonymous with the stewardship of sovereign fortunes, and whose clientele has, for generations, included the crowned heads of state, royal households, and ruling families of the world.

It was within those hallowed corridors — where discretion is not merely practised but inherited — that our Founding Principal cultivated the art of managing wealth at the most exclusive level. Having counselled dynasties whose legacies span centuries, and having orchestrated capital strategies of the utmost sensitivity across continents, our founder established Élysée Capital to be unbounded by institutional convention: one dedicated entirely to the private orchestration of cross-border family capital between the United States, the GCC and Greater China.

Discretion

On the Matter of Our Discretion

Neither the identities of our principals nor those of our senior counsel are made available in any public forum. This is neither an oversight nor an affectation — it is the very cornerstone of our practice.

The families and institutions we represent have entrusted us with the stewardship of their most consequential financial undertakings. Many operate at the highest echelons of commerce, governance, and industry. Their interests are best served when their capital moves with grace and without spectacle. To protect the sanctity of these relationships — and to preserve our effectiveness as their emissary at the negotiating table — we maintain a posture of absolute discretion.

Our absence from the public arena is not a limitation; it is our greatest advantage. It permits us to advocate on behalf of our partner families without subjecting them to undue scrutiny, conjecture, or the burdens of public exposure. We believe that in the realm of private capital, silence is not merely golden — it is sovereign.

Introduction

On the Privilege of Introduction

Élysée Capital does not solicit. We do not advertise. We do not accept public enquiries.

Admission to participate in our funds is extended by personal reference and private appointment only. Each prospective relationship must be introduced through an existing principal, trusted adviser, or recognised intermediary already known to the firm. Thereafter, a private audience shall be arranged at a time and setting befitting the dignity of the discussion.

We hold this standard not to exclude, but to honour the covenant of trust that defines every relationship within our circle. Those who reach our table do so because they have been deemed worthy of the confidence we extend — and because we, in turn, have been deemed worthy of theirs.

Where capital moves in silence, influence speaks with authority."

— Edmond Safra, founder of the Republic National Bank of New York
Family Office Experience

Services for
Generations

At Élysée Capital, we recognise that our families require more than investment management. They require a trusted family office that accompanies them through every chapter of their lives—with the discretion of a confidant and the acuity of a seasoned adviser.

Our client experience is modelled on the highest standards of European personal service tradition—unhurried, exhaustive, and deeply personal.

Dedicated Relationship Director

A senior relationship director exclusively assigned to each family, available at any hour, across every time zone.

Private Estate Management

Comprehensive oversight of all residential properties—maintenance, staff management, security, and seasonal preparation.

Philanthropic Strategy

Design and governance of family foundations, impact measurement frameworks, and bespoke legacy programmes.

Art & Collectibles Advisory

Access to a network of world-class curators, auction specialists, and private dealers for acquisitions, valuation, and exhibition.

Private Aviation & Yachting

Preferred access to private aviation and superyacht partners, with complete logistical planning and crew management.

Security & Privacy

Bespoke personal security assessments, digital privacy protocols, and discreet protection services through elite specialist partners.

"A relationship built on generations of trust"

Élysée Capital is a family office with a strict number of partner families. This is by design. Our model demands that every family receives the full attention of our most senior principals. We do not scale at the expense of service.

Investment fund partnerships are accepted exclusively by personal introduction and following a comprehensive mutual due diligence process. We invest time in building funds that reflect our values, our families, and our vision for the generations ahead.

By Introduction Only Strict NDA Protocol Proprietary Reporting Multi-Jurisdictional
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