Bridgepoint

We provide private equity capital to established companies in six principal sectors where we have significant expertise in understanding, buying and supporting businesses. We fund buy-outs and buy-ins as well as helping companies de-list from their local stock exchange. Typically, we will make equity investments between €75 million and €400 million in companies capitalised between €200 million and €1 billion.

We are particularly interested in companies with strong market positions, a sustainable competitive advantage and earnings growth potential. Using our industrial, commercial and local expertise, we identify and acquire businesses where significant value can be created by working with experienced managers to deliver superior performance.

People are at the centre of everything we do so from the outset we work in partnership with the companies we back, developing open relationships with management teams. This includes serving on company boards, acting as informal sounding boards for executives and adding value by participating in a business’s strategic development. In return, we motivate the managers we back through equity participation, allowing them to realise significant financial rewards from the value they create.

Key to that value creation is the ability to finance and make acquisitions. Bridgepoint has worked with the management teams of many of the companies it has backed to identify opportunities for them to acquire competitors or expand their product or service range or geographical presence. As a result, we have developed a reputation for building and creating value for businesses of greater scale so that they are inherently stronger as well as often better positioned for exit. Since 2000 Bridgepoint has made over 150 add-on acquisitions on behalf of its investee companies.