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Where we came from.

We aren’t like most ‘private equity’ firms or venture capitalists. We didn’t spin-out of a large bank or big fund. We began 15 years ago, from our base in the UK’s Midlands, investing our own money into companies we believed could benefit from our experience in industry.

Our first investment was to buy 150-year old family business, Dane Group, which we sold to its largest US competitor. Since then we have invested across a wide variety of industrial sectors and built up our team of experienced business advisers and industrialists.

From each of these successes we have reinvested the proceeds into new businesses.

In 2016, several major financial institutions from the US and Europe asked us to invest money on their behalf too.

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Founding Partner

Andrew Ducker

Founding Partner

Andrew Ducker

General Counsel

Adam Batty

General Counsel

Adam Batty

Investment Director

Olly Bond

Investment Director

Olly Bond

Our team

Adam Batty Elaghmore
General Counsel

Adam Batty

Adam has a law degree from Nottingham University and upon qualification was in private practice with Pinsent Masons and Norton Rose Fulbright as a corporate finance lawyer. Adam then moved in-house, joining Six Continents plc and, post demerger, Mitchells & Butlers plc. Roles then followed as General Counsel and Company Secretary of Domino’s Pizza Group plc, Selfridges Group, McCarthy & Stone plc and The Very Group. He is also a non-executive director of Cake Box plc.

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Olly-Bond Investment Director
Investment Director

Olly Bond

Olly is an experienced Investment Director and Operating Partner having worked at LDC and MML. Olly has also been the CFO of two Private-Equity backed businesses. His experience spans multiple sectors including Manufacturing, IT Services, SAAS B2B Software and Professional Services. He graduated from Exeter with a degree in Business Economics and trained with PwC in London to become a chartered accountant and has worked in Private Equity for 14 years.

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Our differentiator

We have the confidence to keep things simple. We trust our instincts, about business and people, and we can make quick decisions.

We understand the importance of working with people we like and respect.

Our experience of making companies successful allows us to draw on a vast bank of knowledge and industry contacts.

Perhaps that is why people trust us to be the owners and stewards of their life’s work and most important asset – their business.

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