Realza Capital is a Private Equity firm focused on making investments in Spanish mid-sized companies. It has aggregate committed capital of €170 million received from leading international institutional investors, as well as from Spanish institutional investors and family offices.

Realza Capital targets investments in Spanish companies (and, in exceptional cases, Portuguese companies) with leading market positions in their respective markets and attractive growth prospects (either through organic growth or through subsequent merger & acquisition activity).

Realza Capital currently holds seven portfolio companies:

• Industrias Dolz: water pumps for the automotive aftermarket
• Cualin Quality: tomato production
• Medical Plants: The manufacture of active plant substances, active ingredients and medicinal products derived from plants
• Mr. Wonderful: gifts & stationery products
• Secom Iluminación:design, manufacture and sale of LED luminaires
• Litalsa: lithography and varnishing of metal cans and closures
• Tencer: Small format ceramic coating and walling


  • Area of Activity
  • Private Equity sector
  • Company type
  • Private Equity
Office
Paseo de la Castellana, 15 – Planta 3ª
Madrid, Madrid 28046, ES
P: +34 91 782 09 82
F: +34 91 782 09 83
E: bv@realzacapital.com

Realza Capital comprises a well-regarded, successful and committed team with combined experience of more than 50 years in the Private Equity sector.


The team is led by its Founding Partners, who started their professional careers in Private Equity in 1989 and who have since completed 29 investments with investment capital totaling in excess of €555 million.

  • Javier Benjumea, Chairman
  • Martín González del Valle, Founding Partner
  • Alfredo Zavala, Founding Partner
  • Carlos Gazulla, Partner
  • Pedro de Peñaranda, Investment Director
  • José María Puro, Associate Director
  • Luis Cervera, Associate Director
  • Daniel de la Herrán, Analyst
  • Jaime Riopérez, Analyst
  • Almudena Roca, Analyst
  • Ignacio Azqueta, Analyst
  • Beatriz Castedo, Head of Administration and Finance

Realza Capital targets investments in Spanish companies (and, in exceptional cases, Portuguese companies) with leading market positions in their respective markets and attractive growth prospects (either through organic growth or through subsequent merger & acquisition activity). Our core focus is on mid-sized companies (EBITDA of between €5 million and €20 million).


We seek to invest in companies with an Enterprise Valuenormally ranging from €20 million to €100 million. The Fund’s typical equity investment will range from €15 million to €30 million per transaction.


Realza Capital generally acquires majority stakes. Realza Capital is a stable investor with, on average, a medium to long-term investment horizon of four to six years. We seek to exit our investments either through an initial public offering (stock market) or through a divestment to a strategic (industrial) or another financial buyer.

Independence. Realza Capital is independent of any family, industrial or financial group. Realza Capital’s investors (pension funds, funds of funds and other institutional investors) delegate the Fund’s management responsibilities to Realza Capital’s management team, whose sole objective is to enhance the value of its portfolio companies in the medium to long term.


Commitment. Realza Capital’s Founding Partners have personally invested in the firm demonstrating their own commitment to their portfolio companies.


Quick decision-making process. All investment and exit decisions at Realza Capital are made by the Investment Committee which consists exclusively of its Founding Partners. Each portfolio company will always have one of the Founding Partners representing Realza Capital on the Board of Directors.


Experience. Realza Capital comprises a well-regarded, successful and committed team with combined experience of more than 50 years in the Private Equity sector.


Value-add. Realza Capital’s professionals offer portfolio companies and their management teams access to all the experience they have acquired in other sectors during their investment history. Realza Capital does not seek involvement in day-to-day business operations of its portfolio companies, but it adds value through its position on the Boards of Directors. Realza Capital is able to assist in defining the company’s strategy and the business plan, identifying areas for improvement, targeting and executing acquisitions, optimizing the financial structure, developing and implementing a management incentive scheme, etc.

Our investors are mainly leading international institutional investors, as well as Spanish institutional investors and family offices

Realza Capital