Weinberg Capital Partners is pleased to announce the appointment of Marc Diamant as the Senior Director of WCP Co-Invest. Throughout his career, Marc has specialized in co-investment projects, enabling him to develop recognized expertise in this field. At Weinberg Capital Partners, he will manage the WCP Co-Invest fund, dedicated to this theme and fully subscribed by an industrial family group for an amount of 150 million euros.
A graduate of Sciences Po Paris and Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, Marc Diamant, 52, has built his career around co-investment, an area in which he has acquired leading expertise.
Before joining Weinberg Capital Partners, Marc spent 25 years at Société Générale and its subsidiaries. After a position in London, he joined Société Générale Capital Partenaires, where he successively held the roles of Investment Manager and Deputy Head of Private Equity. Marc led around a hundred operations in varied sectors such as healthcare, environment, and agri-food. Since 2012, he was a member of the management committee of the network’s investment bank, Corporate & Investment Banking.
At Weinberg Capital Partners, Marc’s role will be to identify and execute investment opportunities for the WCP Co-Invest fund, whether in collaboration with funds managed by the company or in partnership with other private equity actors. To carry out this activity, Marc will be supported by Samy Mezaache, Deputy Director, who has been with Weinberg Capital Partners since 2020.
By the end of 2024, WCP Co-Invest completed its first investment by acquiring a stake in Cosmogen, a primary packaging expert for beauty products, alongside the WCP#4 LBO fund of Weinberg Capital Partners and BNP Paribas Développement.
The creation of WCP Co-Invest is fully in line with Weinberg Capital Partners’ development strategy, which aims to double its size by 2030. Since its foundation in 2005, the company has demonstrated its ability to innovate by deploying new expertise adapted to investors’ expectations and entrepreneurs’ needs, thus consolidating its growth trajectory.
Founded in 2005, Weinberg Capital Partners is an independent investment company historically active in buy-out capital, which expanded its field of intervention to real estate assets in 2008. In 2020, Weinberg Capital Partners added its capacity to invest in SMEs/mid-caps with a minority strategy focused on sustainable development issues, which offers extra-financial support known as impact, to better prepare companies for environmental and societal challenges. In 2023, Weinberg Capital Partners created a new fund, Eiréné, dedicated to the development of SMEs/mid-caps in the security and defense sector. In 2024, the company continued its growth in private equity with the launch of a co-investment fund, WCP Co-Invest.
With €1,8 billion of assets under management, Weinberg Capital Partners is a significant player in the mid-market equity segment in France.
Weinberg Capital Partners is a signatory of the PRI, a member of the International Climate Initiative and an active responsible investor.
Weinberg Capital Partners supports Télémaque, an association for equal opportunities in education.
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