January 30, 2025
Permian, Telemos Capital (“Telemos”) , and Highvern are pleased to announce the signing of binding agreements to combine Permian and Highvern to create a leading international funds and private capital services provider. Existing shareholders to re-invest alongside both senior management teams. Together the businesses already operate in 7 jurisdictions with close to 300 employees and plan for further accelerated organic growth as a result of the new combination itself, alongside further expansion into new strategically important markets. Telemos, backed by the Jacobs family, will ensure the new group has the financial support to continue investing in its service offerings, people and technology in order to meet clients’ evolving needs. Already leaders in their respective markets, the Permian and Highvern brands are long-established and have built strong reputations for service quality and the strength of their client relationships. These will remain central to the group’s future values and strategy. Philippe Jacobs, Chairman and Founder of Telemos, and Johan Pettersson, Head of Business Services commented “We are excited to be able to bring these two first rate businesses together and are grateful to both management teams for their trust by choosing us as their partner. By leveraging our sector expertise and international network, we look forward to supporting the management teams with their plans to create a next generation, customer-centric, international funds and private capital services provider.” Marianne Normann, CEO at Permian added that “Following Telemos’ investment in Permian last year this announcement is an early demonstration of the benefits of working alongside forwardthinking partners. Together with Highvern, we are excited to expand our reach and serve our clients in new geographical markets. The combined group will be differentiated in the market by its high-quality service offering enabled by technology, allowing us to grow alongside our clients”. “Family capital is the ideal source of growth funding for an ambitious and respected business like ours” said Martin Hall, CEO at Highvern. “We have got to know the Telemos team closely over the last few years and can be confident that we will continue to serve our clients with the same focus on quality while accelerating our fund administration and private capital service lines in this new combination.” Subject to regulatory approvals the transaction is expected to close by mid-2025. Media contacts