Infrastructure

Invest sustainably. Shape the future. Protect value.

Infrastructure is more than an asset class for us. It is the backbone of modern economies. It ensures energy, mobility, supply and digital inclusion. For institutional investors, it offers long-term stability, resilience across different market phases and access to real economic value creation. We invest in essential projects and companies that perform critical functions for the economy and society – today and in the future.
Dr. Thilo Tecklenburg

Infrastructure investments combine stability with real substance. They create value that lasts for decades.

Dr Thilo Tecklenburg
Partner · Head of Infrastructure

Global transformation begins with local action.

We invest globally with a focus on Europe in companies and projects that provide essential services and demonstrate high entry barriers, robust business models and clear societal relevance.

Our focus is on energy supply and decarbonization, transport and logistics, social infrastructure as well as digital infrastructure. These are sectors that are essential for economic stability and societal progress.

We combine an eye for long-term trends with the ability to actively support resilient business models and make them accessible for institutional investors.

Leveraging substance. Expanding opportunity.

Our infrastructure strategy combines substance, access and control. Three interlocking entry routes create both stability and flexibility:

  • Primaries: Selectively structured portfolios of leading infrastructure funds as a solid foundation for long-term portfolio development
  • Co-Investments: Direct participation in projects and platforms together with experienced partners – targeted and theme-driven
  • Secondaries: Targeted access to existing positions to optimize portfolios, manage durations and capture opportunities selectively

Our long-standing direct investment experience enables us to analyze target funds and individual transactions in detail and engage with fund managers on equal footing. This ensures consistently high investment quality and opens access to leading funds, specialized providers, hidden champions as well as selective co-investment and secondary opportunities.

Where quality is no coincidence.

The quality of our infrastructure investments is built on thorough analysis, clear governance and a precise understanding of the respective development and value creation phases. We assess regulatory frameworks and long-term demand drivers to identify viable and resilient business models.

Through fund commitments, co-investments and selected secondary market transactions we diversify across regions, sectors and different strategic segments. This creates robust portfolios that leverage structural trends and generate long-term value.

Close to the market. Access to relevant opportunities.

Golding has been anchored in the global infrastructure landscape for more than five fund generations and has built a strong network. This gives us early access to relevant opportunities in markets characterized by high entry barriers, specialized structures and local expertise. This proximity is the result of long-standing partnerships and continuous exchange – not of coincidence.

Simon Brugger

Infrastructure connects people, ideas and goods around the world. The asset class has proven to be an anchor of stability and resilience in our clients’ portfolios.

Simon Brugger
Managing Director · Infrastructure

Real assets. Real impact.

We primarily invest in companies and projects that measurably improve the lives of many people and contribute to sustainability goals such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals – through CO₂ reduction, resource efficiency, social inclusion, and digitalization. Sustainable Investing is an integral part of the investment process and a key driver of value creation and risk management.
Our current infrastructure funds are classified as Article-8 funds (SFDR).

Sustainability-related disclosures

7.3

bn € AuM in infrastructure

We invest in substance, not in buzzwords.

Our investors benefit from an approach that combines stability, access and structuring expertise.

We develop investment solutions precisely aligned with the strategic, legal and regulatory requirements of institutional investors, ranging from multi-manager and co-investment programs to individual mandates with clear ESG integration.

Infrastructure is a long-term stability anchor in the portfolio and a driver of real transformation. It connects sustainable value creation with measurable impact – economically, ecologically and socially. This is exactly where the value originates that we unlock for our investors.

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Your team for Infrastructure.

Dr Thilo Tecklenburg

Head of Infrastructure · Partner

Dr Thilo Tecklenburg is responsible for the sourcing, assessment and selection of infrastructure fund and co-investments, as well as portfolio management, and plays a key role in fundraising for the infrastructure programmes.

Simon Brugger

Investments · Managing Director

Simon Brugger joined Golding Capital Partners in 2014 and is responsible for the selection and audit of infrastructure investments.

Michael Muhs

Investments / Infrastructure · Director

Michael Muhs has been part of the Investment team since 2017 and is responsible for reviewing and selecting both fund investments and co-investments in the infrastructure sector.

Felix Ellrott

Vice President

Felix Ellrott has been part of the Infrastructure team since 2021.

Alissa Duregger

Senior Associate

Alissa Duregger has been with Golding since 2021 as part of the Infrastructure team.

Mark Schmidt

Senior Associate

Mark Schmidt joined the investment team in 2024 and specialises in infrastructure and secondaries.

Prior to Golding, Mark was an Associate in the investment banking division of Houlihan Lokey in Frankfurt and worked on a large number of M&A transactions in the industrial technology sector. He started his career as an analyst in the investment banking division of ALANTRA.

Dr Thilo Tecklenburg

Head of Infrastructure · Partner

Dr Thilo Tecklenburg is responsible for the sourcing, assessment and selection of infrastructure fund and co-investments, as well as portfolio management, and plays a key role in fundraising for the infrastructure programmes.

Simon Brugger

Investments · Managing Director

Simon Brugger joined Golding Capital Partners in 2014 and is responsible for the selection and audit of infrastructure investments.

Michael Muhs

Investments / Infrastructure · Director

Michael Muhs has been part of the Investment team since 2017 and is responsible for reviewing and selecting both fund investments and co-investments in the infrastructure sector.

Felix Ellrott

Vice President

Felix Ellrott has been part of the Infrastructure team since 2021.

Alissa Duregger

Senior Associate

Alissa Duregger has been with Golding since 2021 as part of the Infrastructure team.

Mark Schmidt

Senior Associate

Mark Schmidt joined the investment team in 2024 and specialises in infrastructure and secondaries.

Prior to Golding, Mark was an Associate in the investment banking division of Houlihan Lokey in Frankfurt and worked on a large number of M&A transactions in the industrial technology sector. He started his career as an analyst in the investment banking division of ALANTRA.

Risk notice

Investing in infrastructure involves risks.

  • There can be no guarantee that a specific return or earnings target will be achieved. Past returns and forecasts are no guarantee of future success.
  • Minority shareholders who are not involved in the management of an infrastructure fund have no or only limited influence on the fund manager.
  • At the level of infrastructure funds, the use of significant debt financing (leverage) is often permitted and common. Although the use of leverage can improve performance, it also increases the potential for loss.
  • The market values of infrastructure funds may be subject to significant fluctuations due to macroeconomic factors and other changing market conditions.
  • Investments in the infrastructure sector may incur additional costs, particularly in connection with government concessions and approvals as well as construction errors and structural defects.
  • Infrastructure funds are usually unregulated investment vehicles that offer only limited investor protection.
  • The investor bears the risk of the tax and regulatory structure of the infrastructure funds and the investments made.
  • If risks should materialise, investors in infrastructure funds may suffer losses in value up to the amount of the total loss of the invested capital.

Detailed risk information can be found in the issue document of the respective investment programs.