DunPort Capital Management

DunPort is a leading European asset management company focused on the private debt asset class. Founded in 2017 by the then senior executives of BlueBay Asset Management, Pat Walsh and Ross Morrow who successfully established the first private debt platform in Ireland in 2013. We are currently a team of 22 based in Dublin, London and Amsterdam with near term plans to extend origination and deployment focus to the DACH and the Nordic markets. Our experience and track record are derived from through-the-cycle expertise in lending to lower mid-market SMEs & mid-market corporates.

We have invested over €1.3bn of capital to support of 69 lower mid-market companies delivering strong risk adjusted returns to our investors.
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At DunPort, we differentiate our alternative funding solutions from other sources of debt capital in the following ways:

  • Speed of response and access to decision makers;
  • Certainty of execution and flexibility of our investment process;
  • Continuity of relationship management throughout the term of the funding;
  • Uses of funding including growth, acquisition, refinance (existing debt) or re-capitalisation (shareholder de-risking and re-alignment);
  • Extensive track record of supporting SME owner managers, in sponsor-less transactions, to appropriately tailor debt capital solutions and assisting in establishing business and governance structures to enable enterprise growth;
  • Willingness and ability to understand a business, its key drivers, risk factors and provide an appropriate funding package utilising a broad range of financing structures;
  • Quantum of funding and the ability to minimise the potentially dilutive impact of new capital on existing shareholdings.

We have a strong origination network across our target markets with local market expertise.  Our disciplined approach is key to DunPort’s value proposition ensuring a rigorous underwriting process that is uncompromising in diligence, terms issued and robust lender protections as part of every transaction.  With in house underwriting, restructuring and workout skills with through the cycle experience, we ensure we have consistently delivered strong risk adjusted returns for our investors.

DunPort is a United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Investment (“UN PRI”) signatory, a public supporter of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (“TCFD”) and the Paris Agreement.