About us

Company

The LynxCap investment team has been analysing, pricing, acquiring and managing non-performing loans and other non-core assets for more than 10 years.

We provide financial institutions with a comprehensive deleveraging solution through the divestiture of NPL portfolios and other assets considered strategically non-core.

The LynxCap team has completed over 120 NPL deals of various sizes and levels of complexity with some of the largest financial institutions in Central and South-Eastern Europe. Our knowledge and deployment of advanced statistical tools allow us to process large volumes of data in a structured and automated manner to adequately price distressed asset portfolios and offer vendors the swift execution of any contemplated transaction.

We partner with a few select, best-in-class legal offices and collections agencies in Europe, with whom we have established long-term relationships via prior transactions. All our local partners are proven and have consistently delivered outstanding results, ensuring smooth collection processes that are fully transparent.

Our investment mandate covers all of Europe. Our key investment markets are currently Spain, Italy, Greece, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia.

LynxCap is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

Market

The disposition of non-performing loan portfolios remains the key instrument used by financial institutions across the European market to deleverage and improve asset quality. Following the 2018 peak, with over EUR 200 billion in deals concluded and the subsequent dislocation of the NPL market in 2020, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the European NPL market is recovering, with European banks having sold approximately EUR 100 billion in NPLs and non-core loans in 2021.

The CSEE region has been dominated by high activity in Italy, Spain and Greece. By the end of 2021, the largest Greek lenders completed EUR 41 billion of NPL transaction, the Italian NPL sector offloaded EUR 19.5 billion of NPLs and Spain disposed of nearly EUR 7 billion worth of NPLs, accounting for nearly 70% of all European loan sales. This follows the general European trend as banks have been gradually decreasing their NPL portfolios to a sustainable level. The outlook for CSEE loan sales presents many potentially lucrative opportunities with new market niches emerging.

As the impact of COVID-19 continues to become apparent, the economic fallout due to the events in Ukraine is growing, the potential for European recession over the coming 12 months is looming and there are reasonable expectations that more loans will become non-performing. However, we believe secondary trades and the sale of other non-core assets, including carve-outs and the divestiture of sub-performing portfolios are a new leading trend. The NPL secondary markets are opening up, with the first the NPL investors assessing available options for reshaping their investment portfolios, gaining access to additional liquidity and focusing on other, larger investment markets.
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Contact us

Tel. +41-41-71 000 75
Mail: info@lynxcapinvestments.com

United Identification Number CHE-244.186.164

Our headquarters

Lüssihofweg 4, 6300 Zug, Switzerland