Cygnum Capital is a leading investment banking and asset management firm, specialising in tailored and innovative financial solutions across frontier and emerging markets globally. With offices in London, Nairobi, Lagos, Dubai and Amsterdam, our team of 80 finance professionals bring together deep sectoral knowledge with a broad product offering across corporate finance, asset management and financial advisory services.
Our Investment Banking and financial advisory team provides bespoke financing solutions and skilled transaction execution to a wealth of corporate, sovereign, donor and public sector clients. We specialise in designing innovative and solution-driven financing structures across multiple sectors, and raising capital across emerging markets.
Funds managed by Cygnum Capital Group follow strict ESG criteria, exclusions and client protection principals which are detailed on the funds' individual websites. For EU-domiciled funds, our Dutch entity, Cygnum Capital B.V. acts as the Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM), and as such is required to comply with the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (Regulation 2019/2088) (the “SFDR”), including to make certain entity-level disclosures on our website, which can be found here.
Memberships:
GIIN: Cygnum Capital is a member of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN). The GIIN is the leading non-profit dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing. Impact investments are investments made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. Impact investments can be made in both emerging and developed markets, and target a range of returns from below market to market rate, depending on investors’ strategic goals. Our membership signifies a commitment to deepening our engagement in the impact investing industry.
2X Global: Cygnum Capital is a member of 2X Global, a global membership and field-building organisation for investors, capital providers and intermediaries doing gender lens investing in public and private markets, across both developed and emerging economies. They engage the full spectrum of investors, capital providers, mobilisers, and influencers, and work together to advance intersectional investment agendas, level up gender-smart investments, and scale the field of gender finance.
