Theleme Partners
Theleme Partners (Hedge fund) | |
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Founder | Patrick Degorce |
Theleme Partners is a private investment partnership based in London.[1]
Thélème Partners LLP was founded in August 2009 by Patrick Degorce. Co-founders were Peter Davies, Stuart Roden and Rishi Sunak.[2]
Rishi Sunak connection
In 2009, Rishi Sunak co-founded Thélème Partners LLP. He worked at Thélème from 2009 until 2013 when he left to enter politics.[3] In what is "perhaps a coincidence, but an intriguing one nonetheless", Thelema is also the occult spiritual philosophy and new religious movement founded in the early 1900s by Aleister Crowley.
Moderna
Thélème Partners LLP invested $500 million in Moderna. In November 2020, as soon as Moderna announced its Covid jab "could be up to 94.5 per cent effective," the UK immediately did a deal to buy five million doses. Sunak was Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time.[4] As of 2022, the market value of Thélème’s shareholding, at $915 million, made it the 6th top institutional investor in Moderna.[5]
Thélème Partners is owned 75% or more by Theleme Services Ltd, which again is controlled by the Frenchman Patrick Degorce.[6] In 2011, Degorce was one of the earliest investors in Moderna, when Moderna only had about ten employees and a market value of around $125 million.[7]
Theleme adviser
Sunak co-founded Théléme Partners LLP |
As Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak appointed Theleme partner John Sheridan as an adviser during the COVID-19/Pandemic.[8]
References
- ↑ "Theleme Partners is a private investment partnership based in London"
- ↑ "Hedgie Degorce calls up old friends to set up a fund at Lansdowne’s offices"
- ↑ "7 FACTS ABOUT RISHI SUNAK, THE UK'S NEW PRIME MINISTER"
- ↑ "Biography – Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister on 25 October 2022
- ↑ "Rishi Sunak, Thélème and Moderna"
- ↑ "THELEME PARTNERS LLP"
- ↑ "The Millionaire Who Gave Moderna a Shot"
- ↑ "Rishi Sunak Personally PROFITEERED from Moderna Vaccine"