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Welcome to Downing LLP
Private Equity
We are an award-winning investor focused on investment opportunities in asset-backed businesses run by leading management teams
Helping ambitious businesses grow
We are an award-winning investor that partners with exceptional management teams to help realise their growth ambitions and to maximise the potential of their business. We achieve this by providing flexible debt and equity solutions, strategic support and access to our networks.
We primarily focus on investing in the healthcare and education sectors, where we leverage our expertise to drive growth, improve quality, and create lasting impact.
£5-£50 million
Partner with businesses in the UK seeking up to £50m of initial investment, with the opportunity for further investment
Track record
Exceptional 12-year track record
Experienced investment team
15 dedicated investment professionals within the team
Impact
As a certified B Corporation, through our investments, we strive to make a positive societal impact
as at September 2024
Award-winning investor
An award-winning private equity investment team with deep expertise and a strong track record of investing in attractive markets with strong underlying fundamentals.
Our approach
As a trusted partner, we help businesses scale via both organic and acquisitive growth strategies.
Partnering with strong management
- Proven teams with strong service quality and regulatory track record
- Management contribution ensuring alignment of interests
- Aligned on sustainable business growth
- Experience in building business platforms and teams
Seeking attractive market fundamentals
- Strong underlying demand drivers and supply shortfalls
- Fragmented market(s)
- Regulatory framework
- High barriers to entry
- Positive social impacts
Providing flexible structures
- Alignment of interests
- Flexible capital solutions
- Majority or control equity positions
- Levered or unlevered equity structures
- Special situations credit
- Appropriate risk-adjusted returns
Targeting high-quality businesses
- Primary focus on operating businesses across the UK
- Operating in fragmented markets with consolidation opportunities
- High-quality properties and assets
What we invest in
Our primary focus is investing in operating businesses with underlying assets and/or long-term predictable revenue streams. As a certified B Corporation, we invest in businesses that have a positive impact on society.
Experienced management teams
We value relationships and work with ambitious and proven management teams with strong track records to build impactful businesses.
Serving growing and fragmented markets
We invest in underserved and fragmented markets that benefit from strong underlying demand drivers.
Responsible investment and sustainability
We share best practices and engage with companies to help drive positive environmental, social and governance (ESG) outcomes.
We invest across, but are not limited to, the following sectors:
- Healthcare (e.g. elderly care and specialist care)
- Education (e.g. special educational needs schools, nurseries, mainstream schools and FE colleges)
- Living (e.g. retirement living and supported living)
- Funeral care
Meet the team
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Case studies
Bridges Care and Education (trading as Spaghetti Bridge), is an operator of SEND schools and caters to students with a range of special educational needs, including associated challenging behaviours. All students have an education, health and care plan.
Mysa Care group operates four freehold homes with 37 beds in total, located in Hampshire and Surrey. Mysa Care provides high-quality residential care and support for adults with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, epilepsy and autism.
Grainger is an operator of adult specialist care homes in the West Midlands and Yorkshire. It has been rated as an ‘outstanding’ care home by CQC and the management team has developed a track record of delivering best-in-class care to residents.
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We're here to help
If you are a financial adviser, or discretionary fund manager call 020 7630 3319 or email us at sales@downing.co.uk
If you are a private investor call 020 7416 7780 or email customer@downing.co.uk