Structuring, credit origination and asset allocation — with discipline.
Flexagon Capital Solutions LLP combines transaction structuring, credit origination and asset-allocation capabilities with a strong risk-management discipline, serving professional and institutional clients and fund management companies.
A solution-driven investment manager.
Flexagon Capital Solutions LLP (“Flexagon”) is an investment manager MiFID firm that combines transaction structuring, credit origination, and asset allocation capabilities with a strong risk management discipline.
For private investment deals, Flexagon has an established granular network of contacts in the territories of interest, so as to source first-hand specialty and niche opportunities.
For asset allocation, Flexagon employs robust techniques for building pools of investments that match the risk/reward objectives of its clients.
Flexagon can offer its structuring/execution and portfolio management services to professional and institutional clients and fund management companies.
Flexagon Capital Solutions LLP is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority.
Flexagons are fascinating dynamic objects folded from strips of paper.
In geometry, flexagons are flat models — usually constructed by folding strips of paper — that can be flexed to reveal faces besides the two originally on the back and front. They were discovered in 1939 by Arthur H. Stone and popularised by Martin Gardner, whose very first Scientific American article was about the hexaflexagon. Hexaflexagons come in great variety, distinguished by the number of faces that can be achieved by flexing the assembled figure.
Capabilities across structuring, allocation and growth.
Strategic Asset Allocation
Based on clients’ risk & reward objectives and time horizon, Flexagon provides strategic asset allocation across real and financial assets — from real estate to art and luxury goods, and from listed to private assets. Allocations are customised around capital protection, appreciation and distribution, with as much or as little advisory input from investors and their trusted advisors as required.
Tactical Portfolio Implementation
Once a strategic allocation is agreed, Flexagon selects the most effective format and instrument to build the portfolio within each asset class — identifying smart-beta strategies that can outperform traditional benchmarks, direct access to alternative managers (hedge funds and private equity), and an extensive network of specialised partners across real-asset classes, including help structuring and sourcing leverage.
Specialty Investment Themes & Vehicles
Through its dedicated Maltese sister fund management company, Flexagon Capital Management Ltd, Flexagon helps portfolio managers realise their strategy in a regulated format using the AIFMD or UCITS Directive as appropriate. Themes include an Italian AIF for private debt and UCITS funds dedicated to EM frontier sovereign debt, central-European strategies and liquid FX. Flexagon can also institutionalise client assets in a dedicated AIF vehicle.
Growth & Strategic Turnaround
Flexagon assists corporate clients in their industrial and financial growth — identifying new sources of financing, optimising existing credit lines and introducing strategic investors. With in-depth relationships across venture capital, private equity, family offices, HNW individuals and corporates, the firm structures transactions addressing all stakeholders and supports clients across their debt needs, secured and unsecured, structured and vanilla.
A flexagon is a folded form that reveals a new face each time it flexes.
It is how we think about investing: one disciplined platform, refolded around each mandate — the same expertise, configured to show the face your strategy needs.
See how a flexagon works ↗Our team.
Daniele has over 20 years of investment-banking experience. After an internship at ABN Amro Hoare Govett Asia in New York, he began his career at J.P. Morgan in London, becoming Vice President and Co-Head of Fixed Income Derivatives Marketing for Emerging Markets. In 2005 he moved to Merrill Lynch as Co-Head of the Emerging Markets Fixed Income Credit and Commodities client-solution division, later Head of Italy for FICC client solutions.
In 2008 he moved to Mediobanca London to start up the Capital Markets Solution practice for Credit, Rates, Alternatives and Loans. He left Mediobanca to found Flexagon Capital Solutions LLP.
After practising at Le Cabinet law firm in Paris and in the legal department of Cantor Fitzgerald in London (2001), Michela worked as a senior broker in the fixed-income sales department of BGC Partners. Following two years at the Bank of Italy as senior sales advisor in derivative products with a focus on the New York market, she spent six years as a Director at WestLB London in structured finance. She joined Flexagon in 2014.
Coming from a family of art collectors, Michela has developed a diversified network of collectors and investors with a particular focus on contemporary and modern art, and is deeply involved in art advisory and private deals. She holds a Law degree from the University of Trieste and an International Law certificate from Paris X, alongside a Diplôme d’Histoire de l’Art at Paris X Nanterre.
Antonio has over 10 years of experience in corporate finance, debt restructuring and private equity. He began his career as an investment banker in the M&A division at Société Générale and then at Fox-Pitt, Kelton (then part of the J.C. Flowers & Co. Group, currently part of Macquarie Group). He subsequently served at H7, the Italian corporate-finance firm, as Senior Manager in charge of advisory-mandate execution and of the private-equity activities of the EcoRE fund.
Across his career he has executed over 20 transactions with a focus on the Italian market, both domestic and cross-border. Prior to investment banking, Antonio worked as an auditor at KPMG and at the Indesit Company Group.
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Flexagon Capital Solutions LLP is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority.