Arcadia - Background

1993

Robert Fleming had raised a DM 100 m fund and set up a team in Hamburg

Wolfgang Bensel
Christoph Tiefenbacher
Mathias Turwitt

1997

Electra acquired the German team from Flemings to enter the German market

1999

3i makes an unsolicited takeover bid for the Electra Investment Trust

2000

The 3 senior members of German team start Arcadia as a consequence

Independent management company owned by the three founders
High profile institutional investors