Independent advisory for cross-border growth and investment

Acreo Partners supports companies, investors, sponsors and family offices across strategic transactions, investment structuring, technology and value creation.

M&A & Strategic Advisory

Supporting shareholders, companies and investors throughout acquisitions, disposals, strategic partnerships and complex corporate transactions.

Investment & Transaction Advisory

Assessing opportunities, coordinating due diligence and supporting investment decisions across selected sectors and jurisdictions.

Technology Due Diligence

Helping investors and companies evaluate technology, identify risks and define value-creation priorities before and after a transaction.

Luxembourg Structuring Support

Coordinating the establishment of Luxembourg investment and corporate structures alongside appropriately authorised legal, tax and regulated service providers.

Explore Luxembourg solutions

About Acreo Partners

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Acreo Partners is an independent advisory firm supporting companies, investors, sponsors and family offices across strategic transactions, investment structuring, technology and corporate development.

We combine international transaction experience, investment insight and specialist technology expertise to help clients evaluate opportunities, navigate complexity and execute their strategic objectives.

Our work ranges from M&A and investment advisory to technology due diligence, value-creation planning and the coordination of Luxembourg investment and corporate structures.

Acreo Partners operates through a collaborative model, bringing together the appropriate legal, tax, regulatory, financial and industry specialists for each engagement. This enables our clients to access coordinated expertise while maintaining a single strategic point of contact.

We work selectively and confidentially, focusing on mandates where our experience, international network and hands-on involvement can create meaningful value.

Independent thinking. Coordinated execution. Lasting value.

Services

Organised by the mandates we take on, each delivered with the specialists it requires.

M&A & Strategic Advisory

We support shareholders, companies and investors across acquisitions, disposals, strategic partnerships and other corporate transactions. Our role may include opportunity assessment, transaction preparation, coordination of advisers, commercial analysis, negotiation support and project management.

Investment & Transaction Advisory

We assist investors, family offices and sponsors in assessing selected investment opportunities, coordinating due diligence workstreams and preparing decision-ready analysis for investment committees and stakeholders.

Technology Due Diligence & Value Creation

We provide specialist technology assessments for private equity, venture capital, corporate investors and management teams, covering technology architecture, scalability, cybersecurity, data, AI and cloud readiness, technical debt and post-transaction value creation.

Growth & Corporate Strategy

We help businesses define practical strategies for growth, market expansion, operational improvement and long-term value creation, aligning commercial ambitions with execution capabilities.

Exit Preparation

We support shareholders and management teams in preparing businesses for a potential sale, investment round or strategic transaction, identifying value drivers, addressing key readiness gaps and coordinating the required workstreams.

Luxembourg Fund & Corporate Structuring Support

We support international investors, sponsors, entrepreneurs and family offices in assessing and coordinating the establishment of Luxembourg investment and corporate structures, working alongside authorised legal, tax, regulatory, banking and corporate service providers.

Explore Luxembourg solutions

Mission

Our mission is to provide independent, commercially focused advice that helps companies and investors make informed decisions, execute complex projects and create sustainable long-term value.

Vision

Our vision is to become a trusted cross-border advisory partner for companies, investors and family offices operating between Europe and international markets.

Independence

We provide objective advice focused on our clients’ strategic and commercial interests.

Integrity

We operate with discretion, transparency and the highest professional standards.

Partnership

We work closely with clients and specialist advisers, aligning all parties around clear objectives.

Excellence

We bring rigorous analysis, experienced judgement and hands-on execution to every engagement.

Team

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Tiago Falcão

Managing Partner

Tiago Falcão is Managing Partner of Acreo Partners, with over 25 years of experience in banking, financial markets, investment and corporate advisory.

He advises companies, investors and family offices on investment opportunities, strategic transactions and cross-border structuring. He also serves as an independent director of a Luxembourg investment fund, focusing on governance, investment oversight and risk supervision.

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Carla Della Bona

Partner & Chief Legal Officer

Carla Della Bona is a Partner and Chief Legal Officer at Acreo Partners, as well as an experienced lawyer, academic, published author and international business adviser. Her expertise spans corporate governance, compliance, corporate structuring and cross-border legal matters.

Carla is also the founding partner of Della Bona Sociedade de Advogados and a university professor. She holds a dual doctorate in Law from UNIVALI and the University of Alicante, as well as a master’s degree in Latin American Integration.

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Carlos Lima

Technology & M&A Adviser

Carlos Lima advises investors and companies on technology due diligence, digital strategy and technology-related aspects of M&A transactions. His work focuses on helping clients assess technical risk, scalability, operational resilience and post-transaction value-creation opportunities.

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How each engagement is staffed

Every mandate brings together the specialists it requires, coordinated through a single strategic point of contact.

  • Legal
  • Tax
  • Regulatory
  • Financial
  • Industry
  • Technology

Contact

All enquiries are treated confidentially.

All services

Luxembourg Fund & Corporate Structuring Support

From investment concept to operational structure

Acreo Partners supports international investors, sponsors, entrepreneurs and family offices in assessing, structuring and establishing Luxembourg investment and corporate vehicles.

We act as a central strategic coordinator throughout the process, helping clients translate their commercial and investment objectives into a clear implementation roadmap.

Working alongside selected Luxembourg legal advisers, tax specialists, AIFMs, central administrators, depositaries, banks, auditors and corporate service providers, we coordinate the different workstreams required to establish a professionally structured and operational vehicle.

One point of contact across independent, authorised providers.

Who we support

International investors and sponsors
Family offices and private investment groups
Entrepreneurs establishing a Luxembourg holding or investment platform
Companies creating cross-border ownership or acquisition structures
Promoters considering a Luxembourg investment fund
Existing structures requiring governance or operational support

Our services

Initial assessment

Understanding the proposed strategy, asset classes, investor profile, target jurisdictions, governance requirements and long-term objectives.

Structuring roadmap

Coordinating a preliminary assessment of potential vehicles, governance arrangements, service-provider requirements, implementation stages, indicative timing and costs.

Service-provider selection

Supporting the identification and coordination of appropriate legal, tax, regulatory, banking, administration, audit, domiciliation and governance providers.

Establishment and onboarding

Coordinating incorporation or establishment workstreams, documentation, KYC and AML requirements, banking arrangements and operational readiness.

Governance support

Assisting with governance design, board composition, reporting arrangements, conflicts frameworks and coordination between stakeholders and service providers.

Ongoing strategic coordination

Supporting the structure following launch, including strategic initiatives, transactions, service-provider coordination and governance-related projects.

Potential structures

Depending on the client’s objectives and subject to advice from appropriately qualified Luxembourg legal and tax advisers, potential solutions may include the structures listed here.

The choice of vehicle, and any regulatory authorisation it requires, is always determined with those advisers and the relevant authorised providers.

  • Luxembourg sociétés anonymesS.A.
  • S.à r.l. and other commercial companies
  • Holding and investment structures
  • SOPARFI structures
  • Special-purpose and acquisition vehicles
  • RAIFs and other alternative investment fund structures
  • Regulated investment vehicles, where appropriate

How the process works

  1. Discovery and objectives

  2. Preliminary structuring assessment

  3. Provider selection and coordination

  4. Establishment and onboarding

  5. Operational launch

  6. Ongoing strategic and governance support

Considering a Luxembourg investment or corporate structure?

Speak with Acreo Partners about your objectives and the appropriate next steps.

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