The world's leading dedicated growth investor.
Our Growth Capital team provides financial and strategic support to established businesses with the potential for outstanding value growth, operating out of Europe, Asia and the Americas.
Typically we invest up to €150m in businesses with an enterprise value of up to and around €500m. We take a minority share to help a business to achieve growth ambitions, restructure shareholdings, release equity or change the balance of equity to debt. We provide flexible funding packages that may consist of a mixture of loan finance as well as equity funding – whatever is most suitable.
As an active partner:
- it is your business to run. Our role is to support, advise, provide global insights and access to contacts.
As a shareholder:
- your interests are the same as ours - profits, growth and sustainable success.
Once we have invested, we are committed to working in partnership; delivering our international network, our market insight and our energy to help build exceptional businesses.
We provide outstanding resources to entrepreneurs including:
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in-depth industry insight and experience across six key global sectors
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global perspective and network – with local teams in 13 countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas
Our partnership approach is fundamental to success.
3i Investment stories
Labco
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SLR Consulting Limited
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Each business we partner with will typically have: an enterprise value of up to and around €500m; a management team of proven ability; a distinct position in the market and clear prospects for growth.
In return for our investment, we typically seek a minority shareholding (10-45%) and a seat on the board. We will only invest in a business when our interests are aligned with the majority shareholders.
There are several ways that businesses use our investment funding and executive resources, including:
- supporting growth – often by entering new territories, building production capacity or making strategic acquisitions;
- restructuring shareholdings – to pass the business from one generation to the next, enabling the departure of a major shareholder or preparing it for a public listing;
- releasing equity – where owners can unlock the equity they have built up over time by exchanging a portion of shareholding for cash whilst leaving the option of remaining a significant shareholder open;
- changing the balance of debt and equity - to pursue market opportunities that might otherwise be unobtainable because of high levels of borrowing.
We invest from our own balance sheet. This enables us to invest for the longer term and adapt to changes in the business and market dynamics when required. Each investment we make will have a clear value-growth plan and a mutually agreed exit strategy.
3i Investment stories
ACR Capital Holdings
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Refresco
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Anil Ahuja
Head of Asia, South East Asia
Maite Ballester
Partner & Managing Director Spain, Spain
Tim Bartlett
Manager, UK
Guillaume Basquin
Senior Associate, France
Alberto Bautista
Senior Adviser - Healthcare, South East Asia
Mathieu Blanc
Director, France
Lars-Erik Blom
Director, Sweden
Laura Boeck
Associate, Germany
Anna Cheung
Partner, China
Jonathan Crane
Director, UK
Ying Cui
Associate, China
Pieter de Jong
Managing Director Benelux, Benelux
Pablo Echart
Director, UK
Markus Ehrler
Banking Director, UK
Nikhil Gahrotra
Associate Director, India
Andreas Gold
Senior Associate, Germany
Miles Graham
Director, Head of Active Partnership, UK
Gordon Hague
Director, UK
Ken Hanau
Managing Partner, 3i North America, North America
Edward Hanmer
Principal, Brazil
Brian Hargreaves
Senior Advisor - Healthcare, UK
Neil Johnson
Sector Partner, UK
Anna Joseph
Director, UK
Tarun Joshi
Associate Director, India
Claudia Kaupmannsennecke
Director, Germany
Boris Kawohl
Associate Director, Benelux
Richard Kilner
Partner, UK
Evan Klebe
Senior Associate, North America
Danny Koh
Director, South East Asia
Olivier Le Gall
Partner, France
Tony Lissaman
Chief Operating Officer, Private Equity, UK
Carlos Lopes
Senior Associate, Brazil
Justin Maltz
Director, UK
Monish Mansukhani
Associate Director, South East Asia
Javier Martin
Associate, France
Donald McDonough
Business Development Director, North America
Gianfranco Mottola
Director, Italy
Sundip Murthy
Principal, North America
Gabe Nadel
Associate, North America
Christer Nilsson
Director, Sweden
Anthony O'Carroll
Director, UK
Crevan O'Grady
Partner, North America
Andrew Olinick
Principal, North America
Andre Perwas
Director, Germany
Agustin Pla
Partner, Spain
Stuart Quin
Associate Director, UK
Sainath Ramanathan
Associate Director, India
Richard Relyea
Principal, North America
Denis Ribon
Partner, Managing Director, France
Miguel Segura
Senior Associate, Spain
Xuan Yong Soh
Senior Associate, South East Asia
Dan Stern
Senior Associate, UK
Paul Su
Senior Partner/Head of Greater China, China
Cindy Suo
Associate Director, China
Michael Tai
Senior Associate, North America
John Thomson
Director, South East Asia
Alejo Vidal-Quadras
Associate Director, Spain
Vaibhav Vish
Associate, North America
Karen Wang
Associate Director, China
Tony Wang
Director, China
David Whileman
Partner, UK
Oliver Wong
Associate Director, South East Asia
Eric Xu
Director, China
Albert Xu
Partner, China
Guy Zarzavatdjian
Managing Partner of Developing Markets, Head of Growth Fund, France
3i Investment stories
Refresco
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Vijai Electricals
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