CVC Capital Partners has announced that it will sell its stake in the international premium marina operator, D-Marin, to InfraVia Capital Partners, a leading independent private equity firm in Europe. Financial Times reported the cost of the sale as being over €1 billion ($1.14 billion USD).
In a press release issued by CVC on 6 July, the company said it had “transformed” D-Marin into the “leading premium marina operator in the EMEA region”, having recruited “a new management team and significantly expanded the company's footprint beyond its traditional markets in Turkey, Croatia, Greece, and the UAE into Spain, Italy, France, Malta and Albania”.
A potential sale of D-Marin by CVC Capital Partners was first reported by Bloomberg in February 2026, although CVC declined to comment when contacted by Marina World on that occasion.
Managing partner at CVC, István Szőke, said: “When we invested in D-Marin, we saw a business with tremendous potential. Having put in place an outstanding management team, led by Oliver Dörschuck, we transformed the business from a hidden gem into the clear market leader in premium marinas across Europe and the wider EMEA region.
“We expanded significantly across the Mediterranean, built the sector's most digitally advanced platform, and created a business with unmatched scale, customer experience and operational excellence. We are incredibly proud of what we have achieved together and believe D-Marin is uniquely positioned for continued success in its next chapter.”
Özgür Önder, senior managing director at CVC, added: “This has been a true partnership built on shared ambition and disciplined execution. We are delighted to see D-Marin begin its new phase of growth from such a position of strength and thank the management team for their exceptional leadership.”
Oliver Dörschuck, CEO of D-Marin said: “InfraVia has consistently demonstrated clear alignment with D-Marin's customer-first philosophy and our purpose of enriching the yachting experience, and we are well positioned together to accelerate the next phase of our growth. Our partnership with CVC has been instrumental in shaping D-Marin into the business it is today — and the strong foundation they helped build is what powers our next chapter."
Vincent Levita, CEO of InfraVia, described the transaction as “a strong fit with InfraVia’s infrastructure investment thesis and is fully aligned with InfraVia’s ambition to partner with outstanding management teams and back resilient European platforms where long-term capital can support continued growth, transformation and institutionalisation”.
Finally, partner at InfraVia, Athanasios Zoulovits, added that they see “significant opportunities to support the company’s next phase of development starting with a further expansion of the network in a fragmented market that requires long-term private capital to provide scale and know-how to modernise and expand critical transportation and leisure infrastructure and further enhance customer experience”.
CVC was advised by Goldman Sachs as exclusive financial advisor and Clifford Chance as legal advisor. InfraVia was advised by Morgan Stanley as exclusive financial advisor and White & Case as legal advisor.
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