H.I.G. Capital, LLC / H.I.G. Capital
H.I.G. Capital appoints Carlos Couret to lead lower-middle-market private equity in Spain
Summary: H.I.G. Capital announced that Carlos Couret has been appointed managing director and head of lower-middle-market private equity in Spain. The official H.I.G. announcement is the primary source, with Private Equity Wire providing trade-publication confirmation of the appointment and Couret's prior roles.
Why it matters: The update may matter to due-diligence readers as a personnel and European-platform signal for H.I.G. Capital, while the sources should not be used to infer strategy performance, deal pipeline, fundraising, expected returns, or investment merit.
Summary
H.I.G. Capital announced that Carlos Couret has been appointed as managing director and head of lower-middle-market private equity in Spain. The company said Couret was previously a senior investment professional at ProA Capital and earlier held positions at BNP Paribas in New York and Madrid.
Private Equity Wire also reported the appointment and the same prior-role context. The item is best read as a personnel and platform-coverage update, not as evidence of future deal activity, fundraising, performance, market opportunity, or investment merit.
Why it matters
For due-diligence readers, senior appointments can matter because they affect coverage responsibility, local market focus, and the leadership structure behind a manager’s regional investment activity. A Spain-focused lower-middle-market role is a useful signal to track alongside future source-backed disclosures about H.I.G.’s European private-equity platform.
The signal is bounded. The sources support the appointment, role title, Spain focus, and Couret’s prior professional background; they do not establish fund exposure, deal pipeline, transaction economics, expected returns, portfolio-company outcomes, fundraising plans, or investor suitability.
Source notes
- H.I.G. Capital primary announcement: https://hig.com/news/h-i-g-capital-appoints-carlos-couret-as-managing-director-and-head-of-lower-middle-market-private-equity-in-spain/
- Private Equity Wire trade-publication confirmation: https://www.privateequitywire.co.uk/hig-capital-appoints-new-head-of-lower-mid-market-in-spain/
- Public adviser identity reference for H.I.G. Capital, LLC: https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/firm/summary/160711
- Source posture: primary manager announcement plus trade-publication confirmation; this post summarizes and links rather than quoting substantial source text.
- Scope note: H.I.G.’s appointment announcement supports the lower-middle-market private-equity-in-Spain role framing, but not any inference about performance, deal flow, fundraising, or investment merit from the appointment.
9AT filing context
For identity and platform context only, H.I.G. Capital maps to H.I.G. Capital, LLC, with CRD 160711 / SEC file 801-74338 in public adviser identity records. The filing-derived context reviewed for this item shows about $72.3 billion in reported regulatory AUM and about $74.9 billion in reported private-fund gross asset value, plus 231 reported private funds, 1,039 employees, 533 advisory employees, and a 2026-03-31 ADV/profile submission date.
Those filing-derived facts help identify the adviser and provide broad platform scale. They do not validate Couret’s expected impact, the Spanish lower-middle-market strategy, local deal flow, portfolio performance, fundraising, client demand, or investment merit. No direct H.I.G. 13F filer was identified for this item, and Form 5500 plan records are not article-relevant to this personnel/platform update, so both are omitted here.
What to watch
Watch for future public disclosures from H.I.G. on Spanish lower-middle-market investments, team buildout, fund or vehicle references, portfolio-company activity, and any additional European leadership changes. Future coverage should keep verified personnel/platform facts separate from assumptions about strategy outcomes, deal pipeline, performance, or investor suitability.