How to grow your business with acquisitions?
If you’re looking to carry out a business acquisition or continue a buy and build strategy, private equity can help. LDC’s financial investment and M&A expertise can work with you to identify businesses that are a good fit the subsequently acquire and integrate complementary businesses.
Acquiring complementary businesses can help to create a company that is greater than the sum of its parts, building scale and resilience, and subsequently boosting market share. It can unlock new markets and geographies and add valuable expertise to a growing business.
LDC’s strategic buy and build expertise
With £100m available to each company we invest in, we provide follow-on funding to help your management team to make strategic business acquisitions happen. Our broader team can also provide extra support with integration.
In 2025, LDC supported our portfolio companies to complete 45 acquisitions, taking the total in the past two years to almost 100.
We have supported growth by acquisition for businesses from a diverse range of industries, including cyber security provider Aspire, estate agency group Lomond, food manufacturer Bramble, environmental sustainability specialist Stonbury, provider of human capital management Talos360, automated, data-led healthcare fulfilment specialist RDi, aerial survey, inspection and lifting provider PDG Aviation Services, and lift maintenance and repair specialist, The Pace Group.
Chris Tagg, RDi
LDC provided a framework to facilitate the integration of these businesses, which was hugely beneficial.”
Richard Harden, Stuart Turner
LDC trusted our vision for Stuart Turner, which gave us the platform and capital to execute on the M&A strategy.”
Peter Reid, MSQ
LDC recognised the potential from day one, and really encouraged us to jump on acquisition opportunities when they arose.”