Tony Mallin started his career in 1978 at Hambros in the leasing department in London.  In 1981 was seconded to Sydney Australia to start a new leasing and project finance operation.  Returned to London to run the leasing division of Hambros in 1985 and developed it to be a market leader in leasing, operating leasing, property leasing, project financing and PFI.  He also founded Hambros private equity business which became known today as Duke Street Capital.  He was made Vice Chairman of the bank and a board member of the group holding company.  He was responsible for all banking activity and chairman of the credit committee before he left Hambros in 1998.

He also served as Chairman of FLA from 1993-1994 and became Chairman of Leaseurope in 1997.

Tony formed Star Capital Partners in 1999 which is a private equity fund focused on capital intensive businesses and currently manages in Excess of Euro 1 billion of equity.  Royal Bank of Scotland is a minority investor in the management company and together with many international investing institutions is an investor in its funds.

Star Capital Partners

STAR is an independent investment fund manager with over €1 billion of equity funds under management. It was established in 2000 to acquire and develop capital assets and capital-asset based businesses, either independently or in partnership with existing owners/industry partners.
We consider a wide range of opportunities including standard MBO/MBI deals (whole businesses or divisions). However, the main focus of STAR's Strategy is to act as a capital partner. Based on our in-depth expertise we have developed a Capital Outsourcing solution that addresses the many issues faced by capital-intensive companies.

STAR is looking for the opportunity to invest in capital-intensive corporate activity that has:

The ability to generate long-term stable cash flows, 
A location in Western Europe, 
An enterprise value in the range of €100 million to €1 billion and 
A strategic position. 
 
Although we will look at opportunities in most sectors our key Target Sectors include oil & gas, transport, utilities, telecommunications and healthcare.
In return STAR can offer access to substantial capital, an experienced investment team supported by specialist industry advisors, a customised approach to structuring transactions to meet your requirements, and a rapid response.

We are currently investing our second fund and, supported by co-investment from our partners, we can complete deals with enterprise values up to €1 billion.