Press Releases

F2i Reti Logiche srl, a company wholly owned by the Second Fund managed by F2i SGR SpA, has signed a binding agreement with BNL and MPS for the acquisition of 10.27 per cent of SIA SpA, a company active in the creation and management of technological infrastructures and in the development of services for financial institutions, companies and government agencies in the areas of money and payment services, network services and capital markets.

F2i’s Board of Directors has approved the Report of 30 June 2013 for the first F2i Fund and has approved the distribution of €52.2 million to investors. The Board has also approved the report of the second F2i Fund, which is still in a start-up phase, but which has already raised €610 million, or 50.8% of its target (€1,200 million). The €52.2 million, of which €42.2 million represents dividends and circa €10 million of equity repayment, represents the greatest distribution of proceeds to investors that has been made since the Fund was set up.

On 23 July Roberto Barbieri will be co-opted by Sagat’s Board of Directors and appointed as Managing Director of the Company that manages Turin airport. The private shareholders of Sagat (F2i – Fondi italiani per le infrastrutture, Equiter – Intesa Sanpaolo Group – and Tecnoinvestimenti) have chosen Roberto Barbieri to replace the outgoing manager Daniel Winteler.

The ordinary General Meeting of F2i Shareholders met in a concluding session to renew the corporate bodies for the next three years. Vito Gamberale, has been appointed and confirmed, jointly by all Shareholders, as Chief Executive Officer. Giuliano Asperti, appointed by Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, has been unanimously named as President of the Fund by the General Meeting. The new Board of Directors is also composed of the following: Andrea Mayr, Davide Mereghetti, Marco Morelli, Paolo Morerio, Giuseppe Urso, Fausto Amadasi, Giancarlo Giorgi, Marcello Bertocchini, Giuseppina De Santis, Franco Mannoni e Maurizio Pagani.

Armando Brunini, former General Manager of the Bologna airport, has been named the new Managing Director of GESAC SpA – the company that manages Naples International Airport.