Eight Capital Ptnrs. - Strategy Update and Director Dealing
11/12/2025 10:00
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Eight Capital Partners PLC
11 December 2025
11 December 2025
Eight Capital Partners plc
("ECP", "Eight Capital", the "Group" or the "Company")
Strategy Update and Director Dealing
Eight Capital Partners plc (AQSE: ECP) provides the following update on its strategy and activities and the entry on the share register of two new European family-office shareholders.
Launch of New Business Operations
Following the appointment of three new directors on 20 October 2025, the Board has undertaken a review of ECP's business. As a result, ECP intends to supplement its current business model by establishing an integrated mid-market specialist merchant banking advisory and investment business operation, focusing on Europe, the Middle East and Asia ("EMEA").
This strategy aligns ECP with growing market demand, as the Board believes that mid‑market companies across the EMEA region are underserved by traditional financial institutions. This provides an opportunity for ECP to develop a dedicated platform combining advisory, capital access and investment expertise.
This strategy will be developed across three core business lines:
1. Investment Management
ECP intends to launch its own private equity and private debt funds, initially through partnerships with regulated fund managers. The first fund launches are targeted for H1 2026.
2. Advisory Services via Eight Capital Advisors LLP
The Company recently incorporated Eight Capital Advisors LLP, a wholly owned subsidiary headquartered in London, with an office in Hong Kong to follow. This advisory business will provide:
· M&A and capital markets advisory services;
· fund advisory and structuring services;
· cross‑border capital introduction between Europe, Switzerland, the Middle East and Asia; and
· advisory support to ECP's own investment funds.
This will allow ECP to connect high‑growth companies with global pools of capital while offering its investors proprietary deal flow and merchant banking opportunities.
3. Digital Asset Management
ECP is assembling a sector‑expert digital assets team to develop and distribute digital asset investment products, provide advisory services and build a regulated market‑facing presence in this fast‑growing asset class.
The Board considers that these initiatives will help form the foundation of a broader long‑term objective, creating a vertically integrated financial services platform spanning advisory, wealth and asset management, and capital markets. Where required, ECP will obtain the necessary regulatory permissions either by applying directly for authorisations, acquiring entities that already hold the relevant licences, or entering into strategic partnerships with appropriately regulated firms to ensure full regulatory coverage across all business lines.
The execution of this strategy will be led by the newly appointed Executive Chairman, Federico Bazzoni, who brings over 30 years' experience building and scaling financial institutions across Europe and Asia.
Entry of Family Office Shareholders
Following the Company's announcement of 20 October 2025 and the recent Board appointments, on 10 December 2025, two European family offices, Monfor SA and D4R SA, acquired substantial shareholdings in the Company through acquisitions from existing shareholders ("Acquisitions"). Following these acquisitions, the substantial shareholdings are as follows:
| Prior to Acquisitions | Following Acquisitions | |||
| Shareholder | Number of Ordinary Shares | Percentage of Issued Share Capital | Number of Ordinary Shares | Percentage of Issued Share Capital |
| Trumar Capital LLC* | 37,726,065 | 79.13% | 15,000,000 | 31.46% |
| Monfor SA | 0 | 0.00% | 13,920,589 | 29.20% |
| D4R SA | 0 | 0.00% | 13,825,242 | 29.00% |
| *Trumar Capital LLC is an investment vehicle owned and controlled by Dominic White, Non-executive Director of the Company. The associated Director Dealing notification is appended to the back of this announcement. | ||||
| Eight Capital Partners plc Federico Bazzoni, Executive Chairman | info@eight.capital f.bazzoni@eight.capital |
| Cairn Financial Advisers LLP AQSE Corporate Adviser Jo Turner / Liam Murray / Ed Downes | +44 20 7213 0880 |
| 1 | Details of the persons discharging managerial responsibilities / person closely associated | |||||
| a) | Name | Dominic White (Trumar Capital LLP) | ||||
| 2 | Reason for the notification | |||||
| a) | Position/Status | Non-executive Director | ||||
| b) | Initial notification/ Amendment | Initial notification | ||||
| 3 | Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor | |||||
| a) | Name | Eight Capital Partners plc | ||||
| b) | LEI | 213800U1F5CGRZJ47X73 | ||||
| 4 | Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted | |||||
| a) | Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument Identification code | Ordinary Shares ISIN: GB00BQD3MB22 | ||||
| b) | Nature of the transaction | Disposal of ordinary shares | ||||
| c) | Price(s) and volume(s) |
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| d) | Aggregated information - Aggregated volume - Aggregated Price | N/A | ||||
| e) | Date of transaction | 11 December 2025 | ||||
| f) | Place of transaction | London Stock Exchange | ||||