IM1872 is Europe’s leading sports sector investment management firm.
It brings sector experience and networks, state of the art financial engineering and a administrative and operational platform to provide institutional investors with a complete solution to access to one of the world’s fastest growing industries, sports.
IM1872 has the widest set of relationships across Europe, the best origination platform, and a history of high performing transactions in the European sports sector.
IM1872 is a hands on firm that can draw upon its worldwide networks of club owners, CEO’s, media rights holders and broadcasters, sponsors, right down to coaches, agents and players, to evaluate assets, on to structuring and managing investments.
Working with IM1872 can lead to a central market position in the sector, with outsized benefits.
Growth
The sports sector has been growing at a rate that is a multiple of the economy at large for decades, leading to scale and profitability. IM1872 focuses on large catchment areas, which have the fastest growth, for “revenue competitive advantage.”
Networks
The sports sector is highly network dependent, both on the sporting and commercial sides. IM1872 obtains the best opportunities, and adds value through the best the market has to offer, by being able to leverage its networks across countries and functional areas.
Best Practice
Networks and benchmarking, and our diversity of highly performing clients, allow IM1872 to build knowledge to identify and implement best practice, whether coming from within or outside the sports sector. The highly attractive sports platform attracts input from best talents from all functional areas.