Reuben Brothers is a privately held company

Privately held company

A privately held company or close corporation is a business company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the...

 wholly owned by David and Simon Reuben

David and Simon Reuben

David and Simon Reuben are well known British businessmen and philanthropists. In the Forbes magazine List of billionaires 2011, ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK, the brothers were placed second with an estimated fortune of £5.5  billion...

. Based in Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

, Reuben Brothers has various departments in countries including the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

. Its main activities are in real estate

Real estate

In general use, esp. North American, 'real estate' is taken to mean "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; an item of real property; buildings or...

, private equity

Private equity

Private equity, in finance, is an asset class consisting of equity securities in operating companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange....

, and venture capital

Venture capital

Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...

ism. Reuben Brothers have been involved in a number of major business transactions.

Aldersgate Investments Limited

Aldersgate Investments Limited is part of the Reuben Brothers holdings and is the principal investment vehicle for both private equity and real estate transactions. Its management is based in Geneva.

Reuben Foundation

The Reuben Foundation was set up in 2002 to channel the charitable contributions of the Reuben family. It was endowed with $100 million and provided an investment income which allowed the foundation to undertake some major philanthropic work including opening the Reuben Foundation Cancer Center at the Great Ormond Street Hospital

Great Ormond Street Hospital

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children is a children's hospital located in London, United Kingdom...

in London, which created the third largest cancer center for children in the world.

External links

• David and Simon Reuben
• Profile in The Guardian
• http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9064-2220021,00.html
• http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=409816&in_page_id=2
• http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/07/12/375898/index.htm
• http://www.reubenbrothers.com/Article74.html
• http://www.reubenbrothers.com/article70.html
• http://www.reubenbrothers.com/article46.html
• http://www.reubenbrothers.com/Article102.html