Westphalia Partners is an independent, employee-owned investment firm established in January 2020. The firm is dedicated to a single, longstanding investment process. Our clients include endowments, families, financial institutions and high net worth individuals.

We pursue a long-term, buy-and-hold strategy in Continental European private companies. We seek to minimise frictional costs and to defer capital gains by investing only in companies that we believe capable of compounding in value indefinitely.

In selecting companies appropriate for long-term investment, we follow strict bottom-up criteria emphasising quality, value and managerial character. We seek companies capable of sustaining high returns on capital without requiring excess financial leverage. 

We make no attempt to control volatility relative to any benchmark. We aim to achieve positive absolute returns over the long term, with a strong capital preservation bias.

Our Founders and Partners conceived and managed a similar investment strategy at numerous industry leading financial institutions and portfolio companies, starting in 2013.