Silverfleet Capital is a European mid-market private equity

Private equity

Private equity, in finance, is an asset class consisting of equity securities in operating companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange....

 firm, previously known as PPM Capital Limited and acquired by its partners from The Prudential in 2007. It has offices in London, Munich, Paris and Chicago.

Over a 25-year history the firm has been associated with several notable buyouts including:

• Gala Group
  Gala Group
  Gala Coral Group Ltd is a British betting shop, bingo and casino operator owned by private equity houses Candover Investments, Cinven and Permira. In October 2005 it merged with Coral Eurobet for £2.18 billion. The acquisition made it the UK's third largest bookmaker and largest bingo operator. It...
  
   – sold to Candover
  Candover
  Candover Investments plc is a British-based private equity firm, specialising in arranging and leading large buyouts and buyins. Candover Investments is structured as an investment trust...
  
   and Cinven
  Cinven
  Cinven is a British private equity firm founded in 1977 with offices in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan and Hong Kong. Currently, the company has raised four funds, with the last one signing up €6.5 billion...
  
  
• Moliflor Loisirs
• The Barracuda Group – sold to Charterhouse Capital Partners
  Charterhouse Capital Partners
  Charterhouse Capital Partners is a private equity investment firm focusing on leveraged buyout of established, substantial businesses, based in Western Europe...
  
  
• Phadia – sold to Cinven
  Cinven
  Cinven is a British private equity firm founded in 1977 with offices in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan and Hong Kong. Currently, the company has raised four funds, with the last one signing up €6.5 billion...
  
  
• Sterigenics – sold to GTCR
  GTCR
  GTCR LLC is a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout, leveraged recapitalization, growth capital and rollup transactions. As of 2008, it manages more than $8 billion in equity and mezzanine capital invested in a wide range of companies and industries....
  
  
• M+W Dental – acquired from Permira
  Permira
  Permira is a United Kingdom-based private equity firm with global reach. The firm advises funds with a total committed capital of approximately €20 billion....
  
  
• TJ Hughes - Sold to Endless
• TMF Group - sold to Doughty Hanson for EUR750 million
• Jost World - sold to Cinven
  Cinven
  Cinven is a British private equity firm founded in 1977 with offices in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan and Hong Kong. Currently, the company has raised four funds, with the last one signing up €6.5 billion...
  
  
• Histoire d'Or - sold to Bridgepoint Capital
  Bridgepoint Capital
  Bridgepoint is a UK-based private equity investor in companies valued up to €1 billion, including Pets at Home and Pret A Manger in the UK, Dorna in Spain, and Alain Afflelou in France.-History:...
  
  
• Kalle
  Kalle
  Kalle, is a name of North Germanic origin, a variation of Karl. In Sweden, people named Karl are commonly nicknamed Kalle.- Given name :*Kalle Havulinna . retired Finnish professional ice hockey player...
  
   acquired from Montagu for £183 million.
• Schneider Group - Acquired from Barclays Private Equity
  Barclays Private Equity
  Barclays Private Equity is the Private Equity division of Barclays Capital, the Investment Banking arm of Barclays plc. BPE have seven offices across four countries. Started in 1982 they have invested in over 350 businesses including Admiral Group and Dial-a-Phone. Typically €500m is invested per...
  
  
• Office - Acquired from West Coast Capital.

Investment Strategy

Silverfleet was an early adopter in the European market of buy & build (or industry consolidation) as an investment strategy for its portfolio companies. Silverfleet reports annually on the level of buy & build activity undertaken in Europe by private equity backed companies. .

External links

• Silverfleet Capital (company website)