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AIFI – Italian Private Equity, Venture Capital and Private Debt Association was founded in May 1986 and is internationally recognised for its activity of institutionally representing and promoting the private equity, venture capital and private debt activity in Italy. AIFI associates and represents funds and management firms that professionally invest in companies and has developed a significant network of institutions, investors and professionals.
In particular, AIFI pursues the following objectives:
– supporting and facilitating the development of private equity, venture capital and private
debt activity in Italy and abroad;
– enhancing collaboration with institutional bodies to improve the legal environment of the
private capital investment activity;
– increasing awareness and understanding, within the Italian context, of the asset classes
represented;
– coordinating the growth of qualified managerial groups both in associated firms and related
companies;
– collecting and presenting data and information about the market;
– acting as interface and link to both Italian and international financial players;
– creating a network between research centres, incubators, accelerators, universities and
GPs in order to promote successful entrepreneurial ideas;
– maintaining ethical and professional standards in the private equity, venture capital and
private debt industry.
AIFI is a non-profit organisation that comprises 171 full members and 173 associate mem- bers (as of April 2022).
Full membership is open to private equity players and venture capitalists, whose main task is to take equity participations in enterprises, as well as to private debt players, whose main activity consists in subscribing different types of financial instruments. Full members’ matrix is quite heterogeneous, including closed-end investment funds managed by an Italian man- agement company (i.e. SGR), alternative investment funds established as joint stock company (i.e. SICAF), international closed-end funds, as well as public players.
Associate membership applies to organisations providing services to the private capital industry, such as accountancy firms, law firms, banks, consultancy groups, institutions, cor- porates as well as Italian and foreign associations. Since 2020 AIFI associates also limited partners.
In order to reach its objectives, AIFI carries out the following activities:
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