QATARY INVESTMENTS IN FRANCE, UK AND GERMANY

The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) was created in 2005 to handle the country’s windfall from liquefied natural gas sales, of which it is the world’s biggest exporter. Since then, the country has amassed $ 335 billion in assets around the globe, making its sovereign wealth fund the 14th largest in the world according to the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute.

Portfolio Investments (French, UK and German Companies)

1. Total (4%)
2. EADS (6%)
3. Technip (5%)
4. Air Liquide (5%)
5. Vinci SA (4%)
6. GDF Suez (5%)
7. Véolia Environnement (5%)
8. LVMH (1%)
9. France Telecom (1%)
10. Partner of Caisse des Dépôts Investment Fund of €300 million for innovating SMEs
11. Future French Champions is a company that is equally owned by the Qatar Investment Authority and CDC International Capital.
12. J. Sainsbury (22%)
13. London Heathrow Airport (20%)
14. IAG owner of British Airways (20%)
15. Barclay’s (12.7%)
16. Fisker Automotive (small stake)
17. Credit Suisse (6%)
18. Royal Shell Dutch (0.9 %)
19. London Stock Exchange (10.3%)
20. BHP Billiton (1.6%)
21. Volkswagen (17% voting stake)
22. Volkswagen (Preferred Shares) (11.26%)
23. Porsche SE (10% unlisted common shares)
24. Hochtief
25. Siemens (Minority Stake)
26. Deutsche Bank
27. Hapag-Lloyd (14.4%)

Hotels

1. Deuxième shareholder groupe AccorHotels (10.5%)
2. Raffles (ex-Royal Monceau)
3. Concorde Lafayette (now the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile)
4. InterContinental Paris Le Grand (Qatar based Constellation Hotel Holdings)
5. Peninsula
6. Hotel du Louvre (Qatar Constellation Hotel Holdings)
7. Hotel Evreux (Propriété de l’Emir)
8. Hotel Lambert (Propriété du frère de l’Emir)
9. Martinez (Cannes)
10. Carlton (Cannes)
11. Palais de la Méditerranée (Nice)
12. Société fermière du Casino municipal de Cannes (SFCMC) that manages the Majectic Barrière and the Gray d’Albion (25%).  
13. Savoy
14. Shangri-La Hotel
15. Claridge
16. Connaught
17. Berkeley
18. Conversion of US Embassy on Grosvenor Square into a luxury hotel

Real Estate

1. Appeldoorn majority owner of Canary Warf Group (shares)
2. Shard Skyscraper
3. Battersea Power Station (mixed use redevelopment)
4. Olympic Village
5. HSBC Tower
6. Chelsea Barracks (Homes Development)
7. Shell Center (that houses Royal Dutch Shell) Qatari Diar
8. Credit Suisse London Headquarters
9. Thousands square meters on Avenue des Champs Elysées

Department Stores

1. Harrods Group (including Knightsbridge)
2. Le Printemps
3. Le Tanneur (Qatar Luxury Groupe)

Sports

1. Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) completed a buyout of the French football club Paris St Germain (PSG) in late 2012
2. Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) bough the Paris Saint Germain handball team
3. Qatar also owns several horse races, such as the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe

Media

1. Lagardère (13.3%) Majority shareholder