Eisvogel Group

Eisvogel Group

Eisvogel Group was established by Christophe Jungels-Winkler, who spent 15 years in private equity and held operational board roles within his own industrial Mittelstand-Asian family business. The firm is structured as a private holding company rather than a fund, with its principal office in London and additional local offices in Zug and Milan. It applies a family-business ethos to acquiring and scaling companies across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, the UK, and Ireland — geographies where the founders see deep opportunity in fragmented, founder-driven markets. The firm pursues buyouts, minority growth investments, corporate carve-outs, and leadership succession transactions. Its investment criteria center on businesses generating €1–5 million of EBITDA, with enterprise values typically between €5 million and €50 million. Eisvogel targets B2B and B2C software, business services, industrial applications, automation/robotics, and healthcare. The holding-structure model permits indefinite hold periods, with the group emphasizing operational improvement, global network leverage, and building world-class operations over a predefined exit timetable. Eisvogel's senior team combines private equity investment experience with direct operational management backgrounds. Director Andrew Schemmel was previously an associate at Fortress Investment Group and a graduate of GE Capital's Financial Management Program before earning his MBA at London Business School. Operation partner Dr. Peter Grahle brings deep Mittelstand manufacturing leadership, having served as managing director of Eberhard Hoeckle GmbH and as a vice president at Mahle. The firm has not disclosed total assets under management or capital deployed. Eisvogel's structural differentiator is its explicit positioning as a succession partner for family-owned small and mid-sized European enterprises. By operating as a holding company rather than a closed-end fund, the group can hold assets indefinitely, preserving company heritage and culture. This architecture is designed to attract founders who reject the fixed holding periods of traditional private equity but require operational capital and expertise to scale.