IPM Group

What IPM Group does

InfraPartners Management LLP, trading as IPM Group, is a London-based boutique infrastructure investment advisory firm founded in 2014 by Marian Bocek and Adrian Vycital. The firm advises institutional investors on sourcing, executing, managing, and optimising deals in core and core+ quality infrastructure projects across Europe (including Central and Eastern Europe), Asia Pacific, and MENA, with a leadership team whose prior experience spans InfraMed Infrastructure (EUR385m AUM emerging-markets fund), European Investment Bank-aligned mandates, IFC, Lehman Brothers/Barclays Capital, SynCo Group, and Gammon Construction/Jardine Matheson.

IPM's core offering is infrastructure investment advisory services, delivered through a partner-led model rather than a technology platform; no proprietary software, data products, or AI tools are disclosed. The firm's business model appears to rest on advisory and transaction fees typical of boutique infrastructure advisors, augmented by at least one disclosed direct asset position (the Dunkerque Multibulk Terminal acquisition in November 2018). The firm is FCA-authorised (firm reference 697484) as a Limited Liability Partnership registered in England and Wales, and it leverages relationships with leading institutional investors including the European Investment Bank, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, and EFG Hermes. No external funding rounds, M&A targets beyond the Dunkerque terminal, or public listing are evidenced.

Name

IPM Group

Legal name

InfraPartners Management LLP

Website

https://ipmllp.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

IPM Group is a London-based boutique infrastructure investment advisor founded in 2014 that helps institutional investors source, execute, manage, and optimise core and core+ infrastructure deals across Europe, CEE, MENA, and Asia Pacific.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

IPM Group is a boutique infrastructure investment advisor that helps institutional investors source, execute, manage and optimise deals in core and core+ quality infrastructure projects. The firm provides transaction advisory, deal sourcing, execution support, portfolio monitoring and capital structure optimisation, working with renowned counterparties and management teams globally with particular depth in Central and Eastern Europe and emerging markets.

Product overview

InfraPartners Management LLP (IPM) offers infrastructure investment advisory services as a single unified offering. The firm works with institutional investors to source, execute, manage and optimise infrastructure project investments. IPM was established in 2014 by experienced infrastructure investment professionals and operates from London, UK.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Infrastructure Investment Advisory Services End-to-end advisory services for institutional investors covering sourcing, execution, management and optimisation of core and core+ quality infrastructure investment deals with renowned counterparties and management teams across global markets with particular depth in Central and Eastern Europe and emerging markets.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• InoBatcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInoBat is an R&D and battery production company with the long-term objective of serving the European market with new energy solutions. IPM co-founder Marian Bocek is Co-Founder and CEO of InoBat. InoBat raised €100 million in December 2024 from investors including Amara Raja, Rio Tinto, Gotion, and Slovakia's sovereign wealth fund.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Amber Infrastructure: UK-based boutique infrastructure investment manager and advisor with similar institutional client base and pan-European infrastructure mandate focus. Comparable in size and business model to IPM, competing for similar institutional infrastructure advisory mandates.
• InfraMed Infrastructure: Emerging-market infrastructure PE fund (EUR385m AUM) where IPM's co-founder was previously a director. Closest historical peer given direct personnel overlap and shared institutional investor base.
• Greencoat Capital: UK-based infrastructure investment manager focused on renewable energy and energy transition assets, serving institutional investors. Comparable in advisory model and institutional mandate orientation to IPM.
• Foresight Group: London-listed infrastructure and renewable energy investment manager with strong UK and European institutional client focus. Comparable boutique-to-mid-market scale and overlapping infrastructure investment advisory competencies.
• Cube Infrastructure Managers: European infrastructure fund manager with institutional LP base and operations across Western and CEE Europe. Directly comparable mid-market European infrastructure advisor serving similar institutional clients.

Broad incumbents

• IFM Investors: Global infrastructure investment manager owned by Australian pension funds, operating at scale across multiple regions. Competes for institutional infrastructure capital and serves overlapping LP base as IPM.
• Partners Group: Global private markets investment firm with significant infrastructure capabilities serving institutional clients. Comparable institutional client base but vastly larger and more diversified than IPM.
• Brookfield Asset Management: Largest global infrastructure investor with multi-hundred-billion infrastructure AUM. Competes with IPM for institutional capital allocation decisions and infrastructure deal flow, though at an entirely different scale.
• Macquarie Asset Management: One of the world's largest infrastructure investors via MIRA, serving institutional clients globally. A broad incumbent that IPM competes against for institutional infrastructure mandates, but at vastly greater scale.

Emerging players

• StepStone Group: Private markets investment firm with growing infrastructure advisory and secondaries capabilities serving institutional clients. Comparable in serving institutional LPs seeking infrastructure exposure, though with a broader private markets remit.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A1 record

Investments14 records

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