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Investment approach

"3i speaks the same language as my business. I can't emphasise how important that is."
Lord Waheed Alli

Active partners
Each of our investment streams has a clear strategy that involves working with great management teams, great businesses and great ideas to build value:

Our private equity businesses invest in established, growing enterprises:

  • Buyouts acquire majority holdings in European businesses with a transaction value up to $1.2bn.

  • The US Growth Capital team typically invests up to $300m per deal, and will participate in minority and control transactions
  • Our Venture Capital business operates in Europe and the US, investing between $1.5m and $50m per deal in start-up and early-stage businesses.

  • Our Infrastructure team invests between $10m and $200m per deal in European infrastructure assets.

  • Our QPE team acquires influential or controlling shareholdings in small and mid cap companies across UK and Continental Europe typically with an enterprise value in the range of $100m to $250bn.

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