LeonhardtGroup
A privately held family office in Dubai. We own and operate six companies across property, media and software, and we build them to be held rather than sold.
The groupHeld, not traded.
Leonhardt Group is the family office behind a small portfolio of operating companies, run from Dubai and owned outright.
The base of it is property. The family has worked this market since 2004, first buying here, then advising, then broking. Everything else in the portfolio exists because the property business needed it: the media arm was built to market our own projects, and the software company was built to run the front desk.
Nothing here is managed at arm's length. The family sits inside these businesses, which is what lets us answer for them.
The companies.
Six businesses, three countries, one owner. Each one is run by people inside the family office rather than handed to a manager.
Concierge for Dubai. The people who handle the parts of living here that a brokerage does not.
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Does running water stop when it reaches a rock? Of course not. It turns either left or right, and continues its way.
How we operate.
- 01
We hold, we do not flip
Every company in the group is built to be owned for a long time, so decisions are made on a ten-year view rather than an exit.
- 02
Operators, not spectators
The family works inside these businesses. Nothing in the portfolio is run at arm's length by someone else.
- 03
One market, understood properly
Dubai is the centre of gravity. Twenty years in this market is what the group trades on, and it does not pretend to that anywhere else.
- 04
Property and the software around it
Real estate is the base. The media and AI companies exist because the property business needed them first.
- 05
Trade follows the family
Italy and the Gulf are both home. Two of the six companies exist because clients in one market wanted to buy in the other.
- 06
The name is the guarantee
It goes on the door of six companies and on nothing the family does not run itself.
Since 1692.
Dyers in Saxony, then chemists, then shipowners, then a family that left Europe twice. The businesses have changed every century. The way they are run has not.
The crest is the family's own and it is the group's only emblem. Every company here sits under it, which is the point: the name goes on the door of six businesses and on nothing the family does not run itself.
- 1692Grimma, Saxony
Master dyers
Severin Leonhardt settles in Grimma. For the next century the family are the town's master dyers, the technical trade behind Saxony's textile industry. In 1805 August Leonhardt is made mayor.
- 1814Lange Strasse 29
Kattunfabrik Leonhardt
Carl Friedrich and Johann Gottlob turn the trade into a factory, working out of a Renaissance estate on the Lange Strasse. Printed cotton, at industrial scale, for eighty years.
- 1890sSaxony
Leonhardt blue
The factory's chemists patent synthetic dyes, among them Leonhardt-Blau and the yellow sold as Auramine. Colour that had been mixed by hand for two hundred years is now made in a reactor.
- 1903Hamburg
Leonhardt & Blumberg
The family moves from the factory floor to the water as partners in the shipping line. Hans Leonhardt, merchant and historian, has the fleet's flagship named after him.
- 1939San Remo
Italy
The family leaves Germany for the Ligurian coast ahead of the war, taking the archive with it. The Saxon estates are nationalised afterwards and never come back.
- 1950New York
The Atlantic
The post-war generation works out of New York. Walter Reiner Leonhardt, born 1933, leaves the business for painting and ends up in the Museum Charlotte Zander, which is the family's connection to colour arriving somewhere nobody planned.
- 2004Dubai
The Gulf
The family buys its first property in Dubai and keeps buying. Advising follows, then broking, then the companies that grew out of broking.
- TodayDubai
The family office
Six companies across the UAE and Italy, held rather than traded, run by the family that owns them.