Dr. Peter Laib, Co-Head Private Equity, is Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Founding and Equity Partner bei YIELCO, and is also a member of the Investment Committee.
Previously, he was managing director, member of the executive committee and the investment committee at Adveq Management AG (now Schroders Capital), a global private equity fund of funds provider, for 11 years. He gained extensive experience in the development and management of the company as well as in the conception and management of alternative investment products. He was also involved in the launch and implementation of 17 private equity funds of funds. From 2005 onwards, he built up a specialized program for investments in special situations with an investment focus on complex buyouts, turnarounds, debt-for-control and distressed debt. Until 1999, he worked for several years in strategy consulting at A.T. Kearney and held operational positions at Robert Bosch GmbH and Siemens AG.
Since 1999, he has been involved in more than 500 investments (primaries, secondaries and co-investments) with capital commitments of over EUR 11bn as due diligence responsible or member of the investment committee. Within private equity, he has covered the entire spectrum of strategies from special situations, small‑, mid- and large-cap buyouts and venture capital to investments in private debt and infrastructure equity strategies.
He holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Augsburg and a Master of Arts (in Economics) from Wayne State University, Detroit. He completed his PhD in Strategic Management at LMU Munich.
