History
Eagle Square Capital was founded by Jakob Kinde on the traditional British merchant banking model and has a team in their offices in London and San Francisco. The Jacobson Kinde family has been a financial and industrial family from Gothenburg since the middle of the 19th century. The family has been the founder and owner of several companies which include Göteborgs Inktecknings och Garanti AB, AB Jakobsdals Kamgarnspinneri, Bankirfirman Thenberg & Kinde AB, AB Kinde & Co., AB Varuhuset Linopeters, Färgeriaktiebolaget Levanten, a number of real estate companies including Fastighetsaktiebolaget Partillo and Fastighets- AB Domkvarteret in Gothenburg and AB Skotten in Stockholm, Kindes Båtvarv AB, Aktiebolaget Carl Alms Skomanufaktur, Matfors Yllefabrik AB, Bohus Läderfabrik AB, Forshaga Linoleumsfabrik AB (today Forbo-Forshaga) and others.
Through various branches of the family, they are also associated with AB Werner & Carlström (subsidiary company AB Göteborgs Kamgarnspinneri and others), AB Calvert & Co., Bröderna Wennerbergs trading firm, and Albert Fränkel & Co AB and others. AB Jakobsdals Kamgarnspinneri together with AB Werner & Carlström and its subsidiaries AB Göteborgs Kamgarnspinneri and AB Lana Kamgarnspinneri controlled almost 100% of the Swedish worsted yarn market and founded the Swedish modern wool industry for many years.
Jakob Kinde was educated at University College London and began his career at Samuel Montagu & Co , was i.a. director at the well-known merchant bank Kleinwort Benson , one of the founders of the investment company NewMedia Spark plc/Spark Ventures plc/Spark Venture Management , AllIPO Plc and the investment bank Libertas Capital Group Plc, as well as re-established in 2012 Boustead & Co. Limited , originally founded in Singapore in 1828 , together with Boustead Agriculture Limited/Green Earth Africa Limited and founded Boustead Renewables Limited in 2017. He also founded the Noble Tree Foundation in 2003/2004 which works for housing for homeless and vulnerable people in Great Britain.
Eagle Square Capital blends traditional values with innovative services, operating with integrity and offering leading-edge merchant banking, corporate finance, and strategic advisory services to public and private companies across multiple sectors and regions and economic advisory services to governments.
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