Change Partners

摘要

With its retractable roof and swooping, flying saucer-like shell design, Marlins Park is difficult to miss on the highway leading downtown from Miami's airport.The 37,000-seat stadium, home of the Miami Marlins baseball team, doesn't automatically suggest itself as a suitable venue for an elite private equity meeting. But when Partners Group, a Swiss private investment firm, decided to hold its annual investor conference in the U. S. for the first time, in March, it booked the gaudy stadium for the opening-night dinner. Founded in 1996 by three former Goldman Sachs Group bankers, Partners has expanded briskly over the past half decade, doubling its assets under management, to almost $44 billion, and nearly tripling its staff, from 250 to 700. With the once-reclusive company looking to project itself onto the global stage and woo a larger category of institutional investors, the arena-style coming-out party represented a confident declaration of intent.