Why choose delegated distribution?
Navigating European markets has become complex, with regulatory changes (pre-marketing) and with regulators challenging reverse solicitation. Delegated Distribution addresses these issues.
Clients
Mainly UK, US and Asian alternative fund managers wanting to access European instiutional investors
Service
“Delegated Distribution” or distribution as a service.
About us
FinDeal started in 2013 as a regulated investment firm offering distribution and placement of alternative funds through is authorisation as MIFID firm number P0417 “reception and transmission of orders”
History
- Dr. Ion Florescu and Véronique Trausch founded FinDeal in 2013 with Grant Thornton Luxembourg.
- In 2020 Grant Thornton left to avoid conflicts of interest with their assurance and audit practice.
- In 2020, Roman Pelka, the founder of Montfort Capital, joined the capital and became president of the board of directors.
- In 2021, after Brexit being inforced, FinDeal started to offer delegated distribution and stopped all placement activty to avoid any conflict of interest with its fund managers clients.
Facts & Figures
A highly experienced senior team facing the clients.
Over € 3 billion placed through FinDeal services.
Highly secured environment
- Regulated by the CSSF since 2013
- All MIFID processes have been audited for the last 11 years without any major comment.
- 11 years with clean external audits
- Strong Governance:
- Executive team and a board with an independent board member
- policy, confidentiality and privacy policy, code of conducts and ethics, whistleblower policy, cyber and information policy
- Robust IT infrastructure with a disaster recovery plan and a business continuity plan
Team
Dr. Ion Florescu
FinDeal‘s Conducting Officer since 2013, Ion graduated with a PhD in Business Administration from St. Gallen University in St. Gallen, Switzerland after a Master in Business Administration at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, he started his career at Kirch Group, Munich in 1984. Dr. Ion Florescu held senior management positions and was partner at a number of firms in the United Kingdom and Germany, specialising in asset management, private equity, fundraising and mergers and acquisitions.
Véronique Trausch
FinDeal‘s Conducting Officer since 2013, graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris after a Master in Economics at the Unversité Aix-Marseille III, she started her career at Bear Stearns in New York in 1986. Véronique Trausch held senior management positions at Citibank, Banque de Luxembourg and BNY analytics in the US, United Kingdom, Germany and Luxembourg. Véronique’s particular expertise is in fundraising in mainstream asset classes as well as in alternative asset classes and real estate using her corporate finance and distribution experience.
Roman Pelka
Roman Pelka is a member of Montfort‘s executive management team and supervisory board. Roman has been active in the alternative investment industry for over 17 years. Before founding Montfort Capital in 2009 he was a Managing Director at the Carlyle Group.
What we do
Delegated distribution: FinDeal offers distribution as a service allowing non-EU managers with investor relationship teams located outside the EU to access European investors through the services of MiFID entity Delegated distribution is remunerated by a fixed fee and not on asset raised and therefore less onerous than the services of a placement agent.
EU
All major European countries, in total 12 countries – additional countries could be added
12
Major European countries
Our clients
$40+
billion AUM
Major US and Asian alternative asset managers with an average of $40 billion AUM. However, our service can also designed for smaller alternative managers and for UCITS managers
Target
Only professional investors located in the European Union
Legal framework
Delegated Distribution complies with MiFID regulations through a distribution agreement between FinDeal and your AIFM or global distributor
