Investment focus

Investing in UK private companies

Entrepreneurial, dynamic and employing close to 16 million people, SMEs are the lifeblood of the UK economy.

These companies have the potential to generate significant investment returns from the growth that an equity incentivised management can deliver, using the value creation techniques that private equity investors bring.

We enable clients to make direct investments in private companies, which are generating at least £1m EBITDA and are run by experienced management teams.  The investment may be to support ambitious growth, enable a management buyout or to replace the equity of an exiting shareholder.

We target established, profitable companies that have already proven their business model and built a customer base. Most occupy the lower mid-market, roughly speaking this means companies with a value of £10m to £30m. This is an area which is often ignored by larger private equity investors and therefore offers better value. Our goal is to take these to a value of £20-50m (and sometimes more) to deliver the target return on investment of 3x plus.

We are sector agnostic and have invested across a wide range of UK businesses including e-commerce, services, leisure and manufacturing. Our client base means we can draw on the expertise, insight and experience of highly successful individuals help us appraise investments and take on an independent director role to help deliver strong growth.

Access to this asset class is not easily available to private investors, but through Connection Capital you can choose to invest in whichever of our private equity opportunities you wish, in multiples of £25,000.