ALPHA TRAINS

Building Europe’s largest and most diversified specialist

rolling stock lessor

Market leader leasing over €2 billion of passenger trains and locomotives to public and private operators in 17 countries across Continental Europe.

Transport

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Managed Account

Vehicle

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2008

Investment year

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Invested

Status

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Luxembourg

Country

Asset manager

Neil Krawitz

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Employees

1st out of 22 rail companies

Market

  • Ongoing liberalisation of the European rail market provides significant opportunities for growth
  • Green agenda, investment in new freight corridors and electrified lines encouraging more travel and goods transportation via rail and providing support to private sector rolling stock
  • Commercially and technically complex industry with meaningful barriers to entry related to multi-country safety, engineering and signalling requirements

Asset

  • Alpha is based in Luxembourg and has operational bases in Antwerp, Cologne, Warsaw, Madrid and Paris
  • Alpha benefits from efficiencies as a market leader with scale to manage and grow its assets effectively, in a complex market characterised by strong entry barriers and long-term leasing contracts
  • Alpha has a young fleet with an average age of seven years. The vehicles typically have long lifespans of up to 40 years
  • Since acquisition, Arcus has worked closely with Alpha management to more than triple the size of the company’s fleet and EBITDA

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Date joined

June 2022

Office

London

English

Polish

French

Afrikaans

Karol joined Arcus in June 2022 as a Senior Investment Executive. Prior to joining Arcus, Karol worked in the digital infrastructure origination team at Amber Infrastructure and in the infrastructure principal investments team at Macquarie Capital. Karol is a member of the Digital Origination Team. His infrastructure experience to date has been primarily focused on infrastructure origination.

Karol holds a BA in Accounting and Finance from University of Manchester.

Management roles

  • Head of Energy Sector Team
  • Investment Committee Member