CdM announces new majority shareholder
Cantiere delle Marche showed the RJ155 at the 2025 Monaco Yacht Show.
Italian superyacht builder Cantiere delle Marche (CdM) has announced that CLP2, the holding company controlled by Giovanni Cagnoli through Carisma and the Loro Piana family, has acquired a majority stake in the business.
CdM founder Ennio Cecchini (chairman) and Vasco Buonpensiere (CEO) remain shareholders and will continue to drive the award-winning explorer yacht brand.
“This step marks another milestone in the growth and positioning of Cantiere delle Marche,” says Buonpensiere.
Cecchini adds: “We share with Carisma and the Loro Piana family the same vision of excellence, discretion and authenticity that has always defined both our approach and theirs to business.”
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CdM has become synonymous with explorer yachts with a host of headline-making deliveries including the recent 47m RJ155, which was on display at the Monaco Yacht Show, and the 44m Maverick, which is on a multi-year global voyage with owner Tom Schroder, formerly the majority shareholder who sold part of the shares that belonged to Fil Bros Family Office. Schroder still owns 20%.
“Together with the Loro Piana family, we found in CdM an extraordinary example of passion, expertise, and authenticity — values that have always guided the growth of the companies we have invested in,” said Cagnoli. “Our goal is to support the company’s international expansion while fully respecting its DNA and its outstanding team.”
CdM says the new corporate structure further strengthens its position as an “Italian excellence recognised worldwide”, with “solid governance”, “prestigious ownership” and a “shared vision” focused on growth, quality and the continuity of the brand’s “unique” values.
The Italian brand, which sold 12 yachts in 12 months last year, has 14 projects under way despite a “slow” start to the year, Buonpensiere told us at the Cannes Yachting Festival in September.
