Investment Strategy
Credit Solutions is an Italian institutional investor with an innovative and structured approach to the Italian private credit market, delivered through debt solutions and hybrid capital instruments.
Credit Solutions aims to partner with entrepreneurs and specialized investors during the growth and consolidation phases of their initiatives, as well as in the development of real estate projects and investments in the infrastructure and energy sectors.
In this context, the Fund supports its partners through tailor-made instruments characterized by a high degree of flexibility and qualified governance support, while preserving the entrepreneur’s central role in strategic and operational decision-making. Credit Solutions also seeks to support funds and holding companies through innovative debt and alternative hybrid capital solutions, including NAV-based financing, aimed at enhancing liquidity profiles and optimizing overall return generation.
The Fund’s investment approach focuses on the low-to-mid market segment of the Italian market and is geared toward medium- to long-term value creation, with a strong focus on the sustainability of business models and the robustness of financial structures.
Key Distinctive Features
- Focus on Italian SMEs and real asset initiatives with tangible and sustainable growth prospects
- Distinctive origination capabilities, supported by a proprietary network and a well-established local presence within the Italian low-to-mid market segment
- Support for generational transitions, buy-and-build strategies, and corporate and real asset-backed development projects.
- End-to-end expertise and a proven track record across the full spectrum of credit products, including hybrid capital instruments
- Fundamental analysis of the underlying assets and structuring of tailor-made solutions
- Alignment between financial structures, industrial objectives, and asset value creation.
- Targeted positioning within the capital structure combining capital protection with participation in potential upside, consistent with value creation objectives
- Qualified involvement as a strategic partner to entrepreneurs through light governance tools.
- Selective targeting of mid–small cap borrowers with solid fundamentals and significant growth potential
- Ability to structure transactions in synergy with the banking system, providing tailor-made hybrid capital solutions
- Flexible financing structures aligned with the life cycle of the underlying asset.
Integrated Investment Approach
The investment strategy of Credit Solutions adopts an integrated and flexible approach to private credit and is developed across three synergistic investment verticals, grounded in fundamental analysis, active structuring, and risk–return optimization:
REAL ASSETS FINANCE
Asset-backed financing and refinancing transactions supporting real estate, infrastructure, and renewable energy initiatives, structured according to the asset’s risk profile and the investment time horizon.
STRUCTURED CORPORATE LENDING
Look-through structured credit solutions designed to support organic and inorganic growth strategies, M&A transactions, generational transitions, and corporate reorganizations, through structures tailor-made for the industrial and financial needs of the company and its shareholders.
PORTFOLIO & NAV FINANCE
Structured financing solutions dedicated to investment funds and holding companies, aimed at enhancing liquidity management and capital efficiency, supporting portfolio-level operations, and providing flexible capital to portfolio companies and/or the fund to pursue value-accretive initiatives and new investment opportunities.