Patrick McNeill

Mr. Patrick McNeill is a Partner & Investment Director at Alatus Capital SA. He joined Alatus as Partner and Investment Director in January 2008 and co-leads the investment team with Mr. Vogel.
He is part of the adjunct faculty at the University of Lausanne’s HEC, where he teaches a class in valuation and financial statement analysis.
He has 18 years of experience in private equity, mergers and acquisitions, corporate banking, and principal investing.
From 2005 to 2007, he worked at Terra Firma Capital Partners, a €6bn private equity fund based in London.
During this time, he led and was involved in several transactions and investments in aircraft leasing, waste management, power, and utilities.
Before that, he was in the Mergers and Acquisitions department at Morgan Stanley, working for five years in New York and London.
In this capacity, he advised on many transactions in industrials, financial services, and telecom.
He also performed management duties and assumed staffing responsibilities for the European investment bank.
From 1995 to 1998, he worked in the Corporate Banking department of Paribas in Geneva, financing commercial shipping companies.
He received an MBA from Columbia Business School, where he was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma and on the Dean’s list.
He also holds a Master’s degree in Physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, focusing especially on semiconductor lasers.