Why Become a Member?
EVCA's Membership Services and Benefits
Europe's most influential private equity and venture capital organisation could be backing your business…
As a leading player in Europe’s private equity and venture capital industry your business operates in a dynamic and fast evolving market and faces an increasingly complex regulatory environment.
Membership of the European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA) gives you access to the intelligence, resources and services your company needs to capitalise on the opportunities and challenges that are driving your business. You’ll have a highly influential organisation with a proven track record working on your behalf, protecting your interests and lobbying at the highest level on the issues that affect your future.
Join EVCA and you will be part of the largest pan-European network in the private equity and venture capital industry.
For an overview of the EVCA Member Services 2010, please click here .
Categories of membership
Full membership is open to European General Partners' organisations engaged in private equity and venture capital and whose main business is carried out in Europe. This also includes organisations that act as intermediaries, for example Fund of Funds and Secondary private equity funds, whose funds are structured on a General Partner/Limited Partner basis. Banks and Banking Groups are also included in this category.
Full membership institutional investors is open to European organisations that directly invest in private equity and venture capital funds or invest in the asset class through intermediaries like Fund of Funds. This includes, but is not limited to, pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, endowments and corporate investors.
Associate membership is open to persons or companies that have an interest in the development of private equity and venture capital in Europe. Associate Membership is open, but not limited to, private individuals, consultants, financial advisors, accountancy and audit firms, academic institutions, non-governmental organisations and development organisations.
Network membership applies to related private equity management companies or departments located in the same or a different European country than the European private equity headquarter, having the same name and activities as the headquarter and being structured as part of the same legal entity as the headquarter. If the private equity firm has only one office in Europe, that will be assumed to be its European headquarter, regardless of its organisational structure.
