Sienna Private Equity opens a Milan office and appoints new head.

Sienna Private Equity (SPE), a mid-market private equity investor backed by Sienna Investment Managers, has appointed Alessandro Fogo (pictured) as partner and head of SPE in Italy.  

Fogo has experience in private equity and investment banking in Italy and internationally. Notably, he had a 17-year tenure at Investindustrial, where he was a partner, most recently leading the Italian team for their growth strategy.

With this appointment, Sienna Private Equity said it can deploy new capabilities into the Italian market where it will pursue its strategy focusing on value-oriented opportunities and building sector leaders through buy-and-build platforms. SPE invests equity tickets of €25 million ($27 million) to €100 million, in both control and minority investments.

“Our goal is to identify and develop companies with high growth potential, implementing SPE's distinguished all-weather investment strategy to drive substantial value,” Fogo said.

“His appointment reflects our ambition to grow at the European level and in particular in Italy, a country in which we firmly believe there is fantastic potential in the mid-market space thanks to the quality of local entrepreneurs,” Vincent Catherine, founding partner of Sienna Private Equity, added.

Sienna Investment Managers is a multi-expertise pan-European asset manager of the publicly traded investment holding company Groupe Bruxelles Lambert. With a team of around 300 professionals, Sienna IM operates in Paris, Luxembourg, London, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Madrid, Amsterdam and Seoul. 

Spanning listed and private assets (real estate, private debt, private equity, and venture capital), Sienna IM builds bespoke and solutions for its clients. As of end-2023, the group oversees €34 billion assets under management, of which nearly a half are classified as articles 8 and 9 under the EU Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation.