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J. Stern & Co is an independent asset manager and multi-family office. It uses a research-led, bottom-up investment approach focused on quality, sustainability and long-term capital growth.

Smedvig Captial is a family office investment vehicle that primarily invests the capital of the fourth generation of the Smedvig Family. We invest both directly into businesses, as well as into a select number of leading private equity fund managers. Our direct investing strategy is focused on early-stage (Series A and Series B) technology investments in the UK and Nordic regions. We look for ambitious management teams, tech-enabled businesses in attractive markets, and strong revenue growth (with minimum revenue > 1mm GBP). Smedvig Capital was founded in 1996 by Johnny Hewett and Peter Smedvig. Today, Smedvig has approximately $1.6bn of capital invested. $500m of this is direct investments, with the remainder via investments into private equity and venture capital managers.

Netley Capital is a London-based private investment firm specializing in tertiary private equity transactions, acquiring interests in secondary funds to provide liquidity to existing investors.

Graphite Capital is a UK mid-market private equity firm focused on three core sectors: health & pharma, education, and data & tech-enabled services, investing in companies valued between £30 million and £150 million.

Actis is a leading private equity investor in high growth markets across Africa, Asia and Latin America. We invest in private equity buyouts and grwoth capital, energy, infrastructure and real estate. We have >120 investment professionals across 16 global offices. In every market we invest in, we nurture close local relationships, providing us with excellent competitive intelligence and access to opportunities. We match this local insight with a global sector approach, which helps us deliver great results. A particular strength lies in helping families and founders of local businesses to institutionalise. We take successful local brands and help them to grow; to attract the best talent; to compete with multinational corporations and to prepare for IPOs. Consequently many business founders seek to work with Actis, resulting in unique proprietary deal flow.

Inflexion is a European mid-market private equity firm that invests in high-growth businesses, offering flexible capital for buyouts and minority stakes across sectors.

Intermediate Capital Group (ICG) is a global alternative asset manager investing across private debt, credit, real assets, and private equity strategies from its London headquarters.

Foresight Group is a diversified investment manager active in real assets, private equity, private credit and public markets, with a Ventures strategy funding seed-to-Series A companies in deep tech, hard tech and enterprise software.

TowerBrook Capital Partners is a private equity investor and special situations investor that pursues control transactions in complex situations. TowerBrook often enters through stressed and distressed debt instruments or other structure capital before seeking control, and works with companies and management teams to turnaround companies and build value. TowerBrook was originally a subsidiary of Soros Fund Management, but is now independent.

3i is a publicly listed investment company headquartered in the UK with mandates to invest across private equity and infrastructure throughout northern Europe, North America and Asia. In private equity, 3i has 8.3bn GBP under management and typically focuses on businesses with Enterprise Values of 100-500m EUR in northern Europe or North America. In infrastructure, 3i has 3.4bn GBP under management and manages 4 separate funds across Europe and Asia.

UK lower-mid-market private equity firm focusing on primary buyouts in essential services and B2B software.

Unilever Ventures is Unilever’s venture and growth capital arm. It invests directly in consumer brands, commerce and technology, and also makes fund investments; its stated stage coverage is Seed through Series C/D.