“We are very pleased with the broad support of our investor group and excited about the opportunities for our maiden fund,” says Kaido Veske, Founding Partner at Livonia Partners. “The past entrepreneurial history of our team naturally makes us exercise an active ownership model and provide support to management teams.”
“We are excited to support a strong new fund manager in a greatly underinvested region witnessing strong economic growth and capital markets development” says Graham Cope from European Investment Fund, which supported Livonia through the Baltic Innovation Fund. Lovis von Andrian from European Bank for Reconstruction and Development adds, “We have worked closely with the Livonia team for a number of years and are pleased to support the fund with a significant commitment.”
Team members at Livonia are locally based and hold extensive experience in building businesses across the wider region. The previous expertise is primarily from business services, manufacturing, consumer, TMT and other sectors. Peteris Stepins from Swedbank Investment Management, an investor in the fund, states that “With many investment opportunities in the Baltics, we believe that domestic pension funds play a crucial role in the development of the investment landscape. Locally based teams such as Livonia are best positioned to leverage their professional networks for sourcing and managing investments.”
Livonia Partners is an independent fund management company founded by Kristīne Bērziņa, Rain Lõhmus, Mindaugas Utkevičius, and Kaido Veske. The fund seeks to acquire both majority and minority interests in businesses. Livonia has offices in Riga, Tallinn, and Vilnius, and is domiciled in Latvia, which has a transparent legal, tax and regulatory framework for investment funds.