PREMIUM Equity Partners

Marcel van Wijk is the Gründungs- und Managing Partner and leads the firm’s investment activity. A group of named operating partners and advisory partners — including Pieter van Halem, Berthold Hackl, Bernd Kuhlin, and Dr. Wolfgang Rebstock — hold board or advisory chair roles at individual portfolio companies and influence strategy at the asset level.

The mandate covers management buy-in, management buyout, succession, and corporate divestiture. The firm enters as a majority owner in established, cash-generating Mittelstand companies — not venture-stage or early-growth rounds — and uses add-on acquisitions to expand geographic reach, as it demonstrated by pushing heinekingmedia into Switzerland and Austria.

The firm states publicly that it invests only in companies that make a positive contribution — economically and socially — and its listed sector focus excludes fossil-fuel extraction, heavy commodities, speculative biotech, and defense manufacturing. The explicit targets are healthcare and medtech, software and connectivity, consumer and lifestyle goods, and niche industrial technology.