Jaime-Enrique Hugas is a founding partner of Conren Tramway. Mr. Hugas brings 22 years of professional experience internationally as an investor and in investment banking to Conren Tramway.
Before co-founding Conren Tramway, Mr. Hugas had co-founded Tramway Capital. Tramway Capital is an investment firm focused on real estate and asset backed operating businesses. The firm has been responsible for investing over 300 million Euros with its blue chip institutional co-investors in value added opportunities.
Between 2007 and 2011 Mr. Hugas was a London based investment professional at Palamon Capital Partners, a pan-European private equity investment firm with 1.1 billion Euros in funds under management where he assumed responsibility for activities in Spain and worked in investments across Europe covering businesses in the financial services, healthcare and business services sectors.
Between 1996 and 2007 Mr. Hugas worked for JP Morgan & Co. and Morgan Stanley in their investment banking teams. During that period, he was involved in over 200 billion Euros of mergers and acquisitions, company sales, buy-out investments, tender offers and debt and equity capital raising in the oil & gas, real estate and hotels, telecoms and media sectors. He was involved in the biggest global M&A agreement ever and in the largest European leveraged buy-out at the time, amongst other major accolades.
Mr. Hugas has served on the boards of SARQuavitae, Engrande, Retail Decisions plc and RD Cards Australia. He has also been a Treasurer, Trustee and Vice Chairman of the British Spanish Society and was a co-founder and Chairman of the UK Chapter of ESADE Alumni in London.
Mr. Hugas has significant experience investing in real estate backed operating businesses in the retail (food and pharma) and healthcare sectors (care homes). This experience covers the formation of opco – propco business models and a variety of real estate formats including convenience, supermarket and large box.
Mr. Hugas graduated from ESADE in Barcelona with a Bachelor in Business Administration and an MBA and from the University of Barcelona with a Bachelor in Law. He was awarded a scholarship by la Caixa for postgraduate studies in the United Kingdom and has completed Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business Executive Program for Growing Companies.
Mr. Hugas speaks Spanish, Catalan, English and French and is a dual Spanish and British citizen. He lived in London over 20 years, between 1995 and the end of 2015.