Altan Capital – Sponsors

Altamar Capital Partners’ (“Altamar”) knowledge and experience as Spain's leading independent financial services company and Aguirre Newman’s leadership as real estate advisory firm, provide ALTAN with a unique expertise in the sector.

Altamar is an independent financial services company focused since its inception in providing institutional and high net worth clients an efficient access to the best alternative investments managers, mainly in Private Equity and Private Debt. Altamar was founded in Spain in 2004, it has more than 70 employees and manages approximately €2,500 million through various strategies with an excellent “track-record” both in absolute as well as in relative terms, compared to products managed under similar strategies. Altamar also offers its clients access to the best funds and investment managers of Infrastructure and Venture Capital. Besides, Altamar Advisory Partners provides independent financial advice and merchant banking in M&A deals, IPOs and private placements as well as debt financing/restructuring.

Aguirre Newman, is the leading real estate consultancy firm in Spain and Portugal, and with presence in Latin America and Europe, offering innovative solutions in the development, implementation and management of real estate projects for companies, investors and institutions. Aguirre Newman also has extensive Asset Management experience, and manages several direct real estate investment vehicles which have an aggregate investment capacity of more than €500 million. Aguirre Newman has also advised numerous PERE funds on their investments activities in Spain and Portugal. Since its incorporation in 1988, Aguirre Newman has advised more than 2,500 corporations including leaders in their respective industries. With more than 400 professionals, it is headquartered in Madrid and has other offices in Spain, Portugal, Europe and Americas.

Claudio Aguirre

Chief Executive Officer and member of the Investment Committee.

Claudio Aguirre, Chairman and Founding Partner of Altamar Capital Partners, has developed a long professional career (more than 24 years) in “Corporate Finance” before founding Altamar. During that time, Claudio was the country manager for Spain...

Santiago Aguirre

Chairman and member of the Investment Committee.

In October 1988, along with Stephen Newman, Santiago founded Aguirre Newman S.A., Spain's leading real estate advisory firm. Since then both have co-Chaired the company. ,,Previously he was Head of the Development and Investment Department...

José Luis Molina

Vice-chairman and member of the Investment Committee.

Prior to founding Altamar in 2003, Jose Luis worked for Lehman Brothers for approximately 10 years, first in New York and subsequently in London, until becoming partner in Altamar. He was a Senior Vice President of Lehman...

Stephen Newman

Chief Executive Officer and member of the Investment Committee.

In October 1988, along with Santiago Aguirre, Stephen founded Aguirre Newman S.A. Since then, they both have co-Chaired the company being responsible for consolidating...

Fernando Olaso

Managing Partner, Founding Partner, member of the Board of Directors and member of the Investment Committee.

Prior to co-founding ALTAN, Fernando was Partner of Capital Alianza (1996-2006), a privately held mid-market private equity firm where he was actively involved in 13 investments for a total...