Family Capital

Insightful analysis on the world of family offices, family businesses, and the importance of family enterprises in the global economy

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An eight-year alliance between two family offices, one of which is owned by one of Europe's wealthiest families, continues to flourish. Maybe it’s helped by operating from beautiful locations.

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By winning the UK football Premier League in 2026, Arsenal FC humiliated their bitter rivals Tottenham Hotspur, who limped in at 17th and nearly ended up relegated. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. And family values played a crucial role in each outcome.

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Yvan Vindevogel isn’t a name particularly well known in the business world, or at least outside Belgium. But last week, his family office, along with one of Germany’s wealthiest dynasties, just took a stake in a big consumer healthcare group. The Belgian entrepreneur and investor also likes gin.

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The largest listed family-owned investment groups are struggling to attract investor enthusiasm, even as they continue to grow their holdings.

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A Munich venture/family office group with roots in an early-20th-century baking dynasty has backed a legal technology group that aims to deliver much greater efficiency to law firms. The investment is one of many innovative deals led by the third generation of the baking dynasty, who are also connected to some of Germany’s top family dynasties.

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Last year, I wrote about how family offices had become ubiquitous. This year, or at least from an information perspective, they are becoming saturated.

​Helped by LinkedIn and AI, the number of posts connected to the sector has ballooned. It’s like the entire wealth management sector and many others on top are posting their thoughts on the sector.

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An early investor in SpaceX, Palantir, and OpenAI has announced that he is setting up his own family office while also investing in another high-profile AI startup.

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Peter Leach was recently recognised as one of the world’s top family enterprise advisors by the Institute of Family Governance in New York. Few are more deserving of the accolade.

​London-based Leach was given the gong as the most impactful advisor of the year - and it’s just one of many awards he’s achieved over his more than 40 years as a specialist family enterprise advisor.

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A few weeks ago, family offices and other investors ploughed more than $100 million into a startup developing renewable energy systems in the ocean. A week later, a similar mix of investors backed an eco maker of building materials. Impact investments, particularly when it comes to saving the world, seem as popular as ever.

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One of America’s top impact-focused family investment/philanthropic groups has closed its London office after 15 years. The move coincides with the recent appointment of a new head of the organisation, amid a slowdown in its direct investment commitments.

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Byron Allen, comedian, businessman, and investor, made the headlines this week with his acquisition of BuzzFeed, a digital media and entertainment group, for $120 million. Behind the deal was his family office, Allen Family Capital, which is becoming an increasingly important player in the media and entertainment investment world.

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Where once you might have expected private equity to clinch the deal, Florida’s Reinhart family has purchased Ranch Road Cargo, a manufacturer of mobile storage systems...We aren’t seeing an M&A boom yet, but research by Family Capital and other data providers confirms that family offices and their wealthy benefactors are fuelling an increasing number of transactions.

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The University of Chicago Booth School of Management's continuing efforts to become an outstanding centre for education and research for the family office world have taken a further step with the hire of a heavyweight to its Family Office Initiative (FOI).

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Kirkbi, the family investment group of the Kristiansen dynasty, has made two major hires, signalling its intention for the fourth generation to further professionalise the group.

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The Rothschilds, the Safras, and the Morgans, all great banking dynasties, but another, much less well-known one, has led to an impressive number of family investment offices that back startups and other businesses worldwide.

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A paper processing company based in a small village in the former East Germany is the genesis of a family-owned investment group that backs startups mainly in former Soviet bloc countries. It has just backed a biotech in Leipzig.

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A recently founded investment company, founded by the daughter of a billionaire healthcare entrepreneur, is following her father’s passion for life sciences, with help from the family office's chief investment officer. A recent investment in an X-ray vision group for surgical procedures underlines the investment group’s ambitions.

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A family office of the scion of one of Asia’s wealthiest families has invested in a listed battery platform for electric vehicles, hoping the struggling group will rebound after entering several joint ventures to develop its offering in the region.

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Carlos Slim’s family office has sold shares in an oil refinery business it bought into a few years ago, when its share price was falling, netting the investment group a sizable profit.

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Countless migrants have travelled to North America to seek their fortune. But the Topolinski family defied the trend in 2007, quitting a comfortable life in Canada to build a future in Romania.

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