Eric Sarasin lands another mandate
The ex-banker and financier is still in demand. He has recently been advising a service provider for super-rich families in Geneva.
Also Important family partners wants the thick address book from Eric Sarasin don’t miss. As the Geneva Multi-Family Office announced on Tuesday, it has managed the well-known Swiss financier as an external member of its Committee for Alternative Investments. Founded in 2020, the company, which sees itself as an investment club for super-rich families, has private market specialists outside of it Fabian Gobersen nominated for the same board.
In the statement, Key Family Partners referred to Sarasin’s many years of experience and numerous mandates. For example, the Basel native sits on the board of directors of the venture capital provider Swiss Ventures Group, as well as of Tiger 21 in Zurich, a club of company bosses and entrepreneurs with a global reach. His advice is also sought after at Geneva-based family office 1875 Finance, Singularity Group, Swiss Startup Group and Atag Family Office. In addition, Sarasin operates itself as an investor.
At the same table with count and knight
His form slump from the time after the financial crisis is not mentioned in the report: Sarasin resigned at the end of 2014 as deputy head of the Brazilian-Swiss private bank J. Safra Sarasin after proceedings were instituted against him in Germany for delicate tax practices, the so-called cum- ex-business, had been initiated. At the beginning of 2016, the German public prosecutor’s office dropped the case. The former Sarasin deputy head was not punished, but paid a low six-figure sum.
In Geneva, they are now hoping for active help in the search for attractive investments in private market facilities and real estate. Key Family Partners is run by a count, Hugues d’Annoux, and a Knight of the Order of the Crown of the Oaks of Luxembourg, Morten Kielland, guided. Both have many years of financial experience. According to its own statements, the company has participated in 20 real estate investments and 41 private market deals since it was founded three years ago.