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Family Offices and European Defence SMEs
What does Family Offices and European Defence SMEs signal for European defence capital markets and strategic investment?
Family Offices and European Defence SMEs: a DFM analysis of its strategic, industrial and financial relevance to European defence.
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Platform publication · DFM Analysis report · 2026-06-13
In parallel, the European Investment Bank Group has increased operational focus on security and defence, including approval processes that explicitly reference defence supply-chain finance. On the private capital side, publicly documented family-office-associated deployments into defence-relevant SMEs are limited in number but do exist, with the strongest evidence clustered around dual-use aerospace, drones, autonomy, and electro-optics.
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