Founded in 1978, Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) is an investment firm with an investment strategy predicated on building stronger, more profitable businesses. We work collaboratively with corporate and family business sellers on transactions to maximize value. We believe many corporations, CEOs and entrepreneurs select CD&R as their partner because of our reputation for trustworthiness and operational leadership. We practice investing as a craft, relying on a dedicated and cohesive team with a shared sense of purpose and values. Our investment approach blends skilled investment judgment with extensive experience driving growth and operating excellence.

Centre Lane Partners is a private investment firm that invests in the equity and debt of middle market companies in North America. We employ a flexible strategy that approaches complex situations with a solutions orientation. We have an experienced, collaborative and diverse team, and seek to partner with strong management teams that can benefit from patient, long-term capital and our operational, financial and strategic expertise and support. In our Private Equity business, we look to acquire majority ownership of middle market companies and partner with strong management teams that we support through our CLP Value Creation Framework (CLP-VCF). The companies we invest in are generally specialists within their segments and have identifiable value drivers that we can harness to optimize and grow the business. We are active across a broad range of transaction types including buyouts, recapitalizations, corporate carve-outs and restructurings. In our Private Credit business, we provide creative, flexible debt financings to middle market businesses. We look to support management teams, equity owners, businesses and other stakeholders through appropriately structured financings for a variety of capital needs relating to refinancings, recapitalizations, organic growth objectives and strategic priorities. We are active across a wide range of transaction types and typically invest in the following sectors: consumer, business / financial services, healthcare / healthcare services, industrial / industrial services and technology / media / software.

Sovereign is a specialist private equity house that partners with high-quality businesses and management teams in the UK and Europe to deliver truly transformational growth. We have deep and historic expertise of investing in four sectors: business and technology services, healthcare and pharma services, financial services and insurance, and education and training. With one of the largest investment and specialist research teams in our market, we have the expertise and resources to help each business deliver the growth strategy that's right for them. Through our proven strategy of Buy & Build, we look beyond today to spot potential and create opportunities, and we go beyond what's expected to establish, build and nurture long-term relationships. By seeing beyond and going beyond, we help great businesses become exceptional. Sovereign Capital Partners LLP is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

We are a private equity firm that puts strong relationships with management at the heart of everything we do. We make only a small number of investments each year. And we make sure we have researched them carefully beforehand. The same goes for our relationships with management. We want to get to know the team thoroughly, and for them to know us, before we invest together. Our relationship based approach permeates every decision we make. We provide not just finance, but ongoing financial know-how and support from initial investment through to exit. Over 50% of our investments have made acquisitions after the initial investment. From identifying investment opportunities to working with management teams - we go about things in a straightforward no-nonsense way.

We've been building brand equity for over 30 years. Since 1989, L Catterton has made more than 250 investments in leading consumer brands across all segments of the consumer industry. With approximately $34 billion of assets under management dedicated to growing middle market companies and emerging high-growth enterprises, we believe we are the largest and most experienced consumer-focused private equity group in the world. Our Industry Focus Since our founding in 1989, we have focused exclusively on building iconic and enduring consumer brands. Our category-first approach is aimed at truly understanding what matters most to consumers in order to subsequently identify the specific categories and companies that will benefit from those consumer preferences. At the heart of this approach is our constant pursuit of grasping how various types of trends—demographic, psychographic, technological, geographic, and socioeconomic—will drive and impact consumer preferences and purchasing decisions. While our objective—to invest in and build consumer businesses that are rooted in emotional connectivity and thereby in sticky relationships that we can scale—has remained the same over time, we have had to adapt our thinking, our capabilities, and our methodologies to the shifting market environment.

PPM America, Inc. (PPM) is a client-focused investment manager. PPM has the experience and resources to provide our clients with investment solutions across markets, including fixed income, private equity and commercial real estate. However, like a smaller shop, PPM remains nimble, investment-led and responsive to the opportunities that our teams discover together. Our mission is to deliver specific client solutions and service to investors around the world with the goal of meeting investors’ unique investment objectives. In addition, PPM employees are committed to building our community and supporting local nonprofits that strengthen families and increase economic opportunities.

TDR is a leading private equity firm with over €15 billion of assets under management and typically invests in strong European companies that are leaders in their markets. TDR has a 22-year track-record of working collaboratively with portfolio company management teams to deliver on a shared vision for growth and value creation, leveraging its investment, operational and data science expertise. TDR not only invests capital in portfolio companies, but also provides expert team resources to help bring about sustainable, positive and transformational change within its businesses.

W Capital Partners is a private equity firm that provides secondary liquidity to shareholders in private businesses and growth capital for those companies. With $2 billion of capital and investments in more than 90 leading growth equity and buyout stage businesses, W Capital is a leading provider of secondary market liquidity to private equity firms, venture capital firms, financial institutions, mezzanine lenders, corporations and founding shareholders for minority equity positions in private companies. W Capital’s target sectors include financial services, business services, Internet, technology, media, consumer, industrial and healthcare.