Global private markets asset manager HarbourVest Partners has opened a new office in Zurich, marking its fifth EMEA office and its fourteenth globally.
The new Zurich office will provide Swiss institutional and private wealth clients with access to private equity, private credit and real assets/infrastructure investments as well as separately managed accounts. HarbourVest has previously invested in, and managed capital for Swiss pension funds, insurance companies, wealth advisors, private banks and family offices.
It will be led by managing director Simon Jennings, who also leads the firm’s private client activities in EMEA and APAC. Jennings joined in 2017 and helped launch the firm’s private equity open-ended evergreen fund for non-US institutional and high-net-worth investors.
In a statement, Peter Wilson, Managing Director at HarbourVest Partners, described Switzerland as offering a “sophisticated market for the continued growth of private markets”.
HarbourVest managed more than $125bn in AUM as of 31 December. The firm works across global primary funds, secondary transactions, direct co-investments, real assets/infrastructure and private credit.
