Partners
Three partners. One institutional discipline.
EC Capital's partnership combines complementary domains — legal architecture, capital markets, and global operations — engineered to deliver structural transformation at institutional standards.
PARTNER · 01
Gina De Echeona
Legal Structuring & Investment Architecture
- Background
- Former senior counsel at a global cross-border M&A practice, with two decades of experience structuring institutional investment vehicles across European and Latin American jurisdictions.
- Expertise
- Cross-border holding structures
- Tax-efficient capital deployment
- IP architecture and protection
- Fund formation and LP governance
- Network
- Tier-one international law firms, family offices, and regulators across the EU, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Latin America.
- Role in the Fund
- Leads investment structuring, legal architecture, and protection of fund and portfolio integrity.
PARTNER · 02
Lukas Schwind
Capital Markets & Growth Strategy
- Background
- Focused on fundraising, private capital, and growth-stage investments across Europe. Brings experience in transaction structuring, investor relations, and cross-border business development for high-growth companies and investment platforms.
- Expertise
- Institutional capital formation
- Equity story positioning
- Valuation re-rating playbooks
- Strategic exit engineering
- Network
- European pension funds, sovereign wealth allocators, sell-side analysts, and global strategic acquirers.
- Role in the Fund
- Leads LP relations, capital markets strategy, and exit pathway engineering for portfolio companies.
PARTNER · 03
Marius Golden
Operations & Global Scaling
- Background
- Operating partner and former COO of high-growth scaleups across Europe and the Americas, with hands-on experience scaling companies from regional leaders to global institutional assets.
- Expertise
- 100-day transformation programs
- International market entry
- Executive recruitment
- Operational and governance upgrades
- Network
- Operating executives, channel partners and growth-stage talent across Europe, North America and Latin America.
- Role in the Fund
- Leads portfolio operations, international expansion programs, and the EC Capital value creation engine.