Stoneshield is a leading real assets private equity firm investing across the capital stack with focus in Southern Europe. Stoneshield, a top PERE 100 firm globally, has raised over €2.5bn of equity in the last five years.

Stoneshield focuses on supply constrained thematic industries, including Student Housing, Logistics, Industrial Outdoor Storage, Digital Infrastructure, Science & Innovation, and Living Platforms. The firm has the support of institutional investors from the US, UK, Europe, Middle East and Asia.

Investment principles & strategy

By combining the following three strategies, Stoneshield is able to generate alpha and consequently, superior risk-adjusted returns:

  • Themes: Stoneshield invests in high-conviction themes (Living, Student Housing, Science & Innovation, Logistics & Industrial Outdoor Storage and Digital Infrastructure), which are supported by secular tailwinds and strong demand/supply imbalances that will persist in the long term
  • Distress/Opportunistic Entry: Stoneshield’s philosophy is to always access these verticals by buying cheap, leveraging on distress opportunities. As such, Stoneshield has extensive experience in securing deals by leveraging on distressed situations
  • Platforms: Finally, Stoneshield builds operating platforms, which believes its key to maximise the value of the assets. By owning the OpCos, Stoneshield is able to closely monitor the assets and have a better view on how to extract more value from them (revenue increase capacity, cost streamlining, synergies across the portfolio, etc). Furthermore, by acquiring or creating strategic OpCos Stoneshield avoids having to externalise this service to a more expensive third-party provider

    Stoneshield invests with the above core guidelines whilst having a prudent approach towards leverage, always targeting <50% LTV levels.

Strategic corporate development

Stoneshield Capital aims to continue growing as it has been doing since its foundation six years ago. The ambition is to double the €2.5bn of equity commitments in the short term.

Performance verification

As of September 2024 Stoneshield Opportunity Funds I & II rank as top performers in Preqin amongst European Real Estate funds in their respective vintages.

COMPLIANCE STATEMENT

At Stoneshield Capital, we are dedicated to upholding the highest standards of regulatory compliance and ethical practices. We rigorously adhere to relevant Luxembourg regulations and industry best practices through regularly updated compliance manuals, code of conduct, allocation and investment policies and work environment policies among others.

Our commitment is further reinforced by leveraging internal teams and trusted advisors to support each division’s compliance efforts, ensuring these standards are consistently applied across our operations. Through this approach, Stoneshield Capital remains a responsible and transparent organization aligned with evolving regulatory demands.