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Private Equity Insights

About Private Equity

Understand how private equity combines investment, expertise and long-term partnership to help ambitious management teams to grow their business, their way.

Explore deal types, the investment process and how private equity can enable funding of acquisitions, international expansion, organic growth, succession planning, business improvements and sustainable value creation.

Private Equity: A Guide for Business Leaders

What is private equity?

The what and the why on private equity and how it could be an option for you and your business.

Why choose private equity?

Explore how private equity can enable business growth and/or support an ownership change or de-risking of capital.

Private equity for business growth

How does private equity accelerate sustainable business growth and create long-term value?

Funding for buy and build

Looking to carry out a business acquisition, buy a competitor or bolt-on an international business? Private equity investment can help identify, acquire and integrate.

How to expand internationally

Private equity backing can assist a business’s global expansion by increasing exports, acquiring an international business or opening a new office overseas.

Types of private equity

Explore the various types of private equity transactions to support your business ambitions.

The private equity investment process

Explore the stages of a private equity transaction including the preparation required, due diligence, completion and ongoing support.

Private equity case studies

Hear from LDC-backed CEOs on how private equity has helped them achieve their ambitions.

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An Intro to Private Equity

This guide will help you understand if private equity is the right choice for you, your management team, and your business.

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AI Insights

How can AI help to increase revenue, create efficiency, and improve customer outcomes? Download our exclusive insight to hear the perspective of leaders across our portfolio.

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Trusted with Ambition®

Take a look at our company brochure where we share our activity, performance and impact across the UK.

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Ash Malhan, IDSL

The LDC team has backed our ambitions from day one with the capital and strategic guidance we needed to expand rapidly.”

Jan Steele, Lucid Group

We had a vision to be the best communications consultancy and we knew the best way to do that was to acquire companies.”

Chris Cammann, Hybrid

We were keen to remain in the driving seat but wanted support from an experienced investor with a committed source of capital.”

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FAQs and Glossary

Private Equity. Step-by-Step

Every private equity deal is different – so you’re bound to have some questions. Get to know LDC better here too. Take a look at our most frequently asked questions.

Private Equity. Made Clearer

We want to make private equity as transparent and straightforward as we are – take a look at our glossary if you’ve spotted any jargon.

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