Bridgepoint Capital

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Bridgepoint
Private Ownership, Limited partnership
Industry Private Equity
Founded 1984
Headquarters London, United Kingdom
Products Investments, private equity funds
Total assets €13 billion (GBP£11.4 billion)
Website www.bridgepoint.eu

Bridgepoint is a pan-European private equity investor focused on acquiring leading middle market businesses valued up to €1 billion and world domination. Recent investments have included Quilter, Wiggle and Pret a Manger in the UK, Dorna in Spain, and Alain Afflelou and Histoire d'Or in France. It also operates a second business, Bridgepoint Development Capital, which specialises in smaller cap businesses valued up to €150 million.

History

Bridgepoint was known as NatWest Equity Partners until a management buyout in May 2000. In November 2008 Bridgepoint closed its latest €4.8 billion Bridgepoint Europe IV fund, bringing to €13 billion the amount of committed capital to date from institutional investors around the world.[1]

Notable investments

Between 1999 and 2005, Bridgepoint owned a 50% share of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Theatres, owning up to 13 West End theatres.[11]

See also

References

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  2. ↑ Pret a Manger to be sold to private equity, The Telegraph, 23 February 2008
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  4. ↑ http://www.bridgepoint.eu/en/news/press-releases/2014/moneycorp-acquired-by-bridgepoint-in-transaction-totalling-gbp-212-million/
  5. ↑ http://www.taloussanomat.fi/yritykset/2015/04/28/finnkino-myytiin-iso-britanniaan/20155333/12
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  8. ↑ http://www.bridgepoint.eu/en/news/press-releases/2015/bridgepoint-completes-gbp-250-million-acquisition-of-ask-italian-and-zizzi/
  9. ↑ http://www.bridgepoint.eu/en/news/press-releases/2015/bridgepoint-completes-gbp-250-million-acquisition-of-ask-italian-and-zizzi/
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