Type Private company Founded 2008 | Website www.dcpla.com Parent organization Dohr Capital GmbH | |
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Number of locations Munich
Zurich
London
Melbourne Key people Nina Dohr-Pawlowitz (CEO & Head of Fund Placement)
Hans-Peter Dohr (Managing Director & Head of Advisory)
Eva March (Managing Director & Head of Investor Communications) Locations Munich, Zürich, London, Melbourne | ||
DC Placement Advisors (DCPLA) is an independent placement agent and a private markets advisory firm focused on fundraising and strategic advisory of alternative investment management firms as well as providing investor communication services. The firm has 11 staffs and is based in Munich with representations in London, Melbourne and Zurich. DC Placement Advisors covers private equity, private debt, infrastructure, real estate, and other real assets (including timberland and farmland).
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History
In 2008, DC Placement Advisors was established as a 100% subsidiary of Dohr Capital GmbH, an international corporate finance boutique in Munich. In 2010 DC Placement Advisors became a stand-alone entity.
Business line
Rankings
The firm was ranked as number 5 in the global placement agent ranking of Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst in 2010.
DC Placement Advisors is among the four finalists of the Global placement agent of the year in the Infrastructure Investor annual awards by PEI Media for two consecutive years in 2013 and 2014.
Events and publications
DCPLA organizes different Investor Forums together with co-organizers each year. These events are members’ only platform for information, discussion and networking in the area of alternative investment, such as private equity, private debt, real estate, legal and regulatory issues, etc.
The conference was founded in 2013 by DC Placement Advisors, a Munich based placement agent for alternative investment, together with its 2013 co-organizer SJ Berwin. In 2015, the conference extended its geographical presence by holding a similar forum in Frankfurt, Germany, under the title of Frankfurt Investor Forum (FIF). The MIF and FIF 2015 together, have brought together 100 senior representatives representing over EUR 2.8 trillion in assets and investing funds, 23 speakers and 100 unique delegates.
Munich Investor Forum 2013 (MIF)
On 9 October 2013, DCPLA, together with SJ Berwin conducted the Munich Investor Forum 2013. It was a free-to-attend, by-invitation event, dedicated to the private debt asset class, which was planned as a response to the low interest rate environment of the time. The forum offered interested parties the opportunity to get together with leading private debt fund managers, to share insights and exchange ideas with institutional investors and to discuss the latest legal and regulatory updates. Detailed discussions were held in dedicated panels in which experienced professionals mapped out the opportunities available in the infrastructure debt, real estate debt, and corporate credit/debt markets.
Munich Investor Forum 2015 (MIF)
The MIF 2015 was organized by DC Placement Advisors and international law firm Dechert LLP which brought together some of the most experienced professionals in the areas of infrastructure, private debt/credit, private equity, and real estate along with the regulatory issues and outlook.
The MIF 2015 was held on 29 January 2015 in Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski. It was a free-to-attend, by-invitation event dedicated to a broader perspective within the alternative asset class, including real estate, private equity, credit, and infrastructure markets. Regulatory issues and outlooks, as well as investment consultants perspective were discussed in respective panels.
Frankfurt Investor Forum 2015 (FIF)
The Frankfurt Investor Forum (FIF) is the extension of the Munich Investor Forum, a similar conference which takes place in Munich since 2013 by DC Placement Advisors together with its co-organizers. The FIF 2015 had almost the same structure as the MIF 2015, and was co-hosted by the international law firm Dechert LLP in Frankfurt. Topics and panels included discussions about private debt/credit, private equity, infrastructure and real estate as well as the regulatory issues and outlook.
Frankfurt Investor Forum 2015 was a free-to-attend, by-invitation event, dedicated to the private debt asset class, which was planned as a response to the low interest rate environment of the time. The forum offered interested parties the opportunity to get together with leading private debt fund managers, to share insights and exchange ideas with institutional investors and to discuss the latest legal and regulatory updates.
Global Infrastructure Debt Report
In Q4 2012 DCPLA was asked by one of the most active German pension funds infrastructure investor to provide an overview of the infrastructure debt space. It has continued to publish a quarterly report on the global infrastructure debt industry since then, which is written in a casual, easy to understand format, with the cooperation of the infrastructure funds in the market.
The report includes the latest details and updates about the funds, as well as market intelligence, and statistical analysis such as supply and demand in the market.
Industry conferences
DCPLA has been speaker at various high-rank infrastructure and investor events:
Association of the German Alternative Investment Industry
DC Placement Advisors is a supporting member of BAI Bundesverband Alternative Investments e.V.),the association of the German alternative investment industry.
EVCA
DC Placement Advisors is an associate member of EVCA (European Private equity & Venture capital Association).