Dewi Hughes

Dewi is responsible for leading LDC’s teams across the South West and Wales, and ensuring the firm continues to support the growth ambitions of businesses based there. 

He is a highly experienced mid-market and private equity investment specialist. Since joining LDC in 2016, he has led the MBO from AXA Health of leading provider of technology-enabled care products and services, Taking Care, the MBO of tech-enabled marine services business Idwal, the £18m investment in global pharmaceutical development organisation TMC Pharma Services, the SBO of Sohonet and the investment in IT services company Vista.

He has led LDC’s partnership with digital media firm Hybrid and its exit to EAB, Plimsoll Productions and its £131m sale to ITV plc, ADEY, which after four years was exited in a £210m transaction to Polypipe Group plc and the investment and exit of outdoor adventure business Zip World in a transaction that valued the business at more than £100m.

After graduating from Bristol University, Welsh-speaker Dewi qualified as a chartered accountant at EY in Cardiff before joining its Lead Advisory / Mergers and Acquisitions team in 1998. He then went on to lead Deloitte’s Corporate Finance Advisory business in Wales, as well as its UK and global building products sector and regional markets initiative.