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Sovereign Capital
Established in 2001, Sovereign Capital Partners LLP is a UK-based private equity specialist renowned for 'Buy & Build'. It invests in companies in business and technology services, healthcare and pharmaceutical services and education & training sectors, and has close to £1,000m of funds under management. The firm invests up to £50m of capital in each business, partnering management teams to help them achieve significant growth through both organic roll-out and acquisition. Alongside this, Sovereign's in-house research team helps portfolio companies to source strategic acquisitions that will extend the company's service offering and geographic coverage. The business has supported the growth strategies of some of the fastest growing companies in the UK as recognised in the Sunday Times Buyout Track 100 and the Sunday Times Buyout Fast Track 100. Companies include City & County Healthcare Group, National Fostering Agency and Lifetime. Investments include *City & County Healt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Company A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on '' Forbes'' survey of closely held U.S. businesses sold a trillion dollars' worth o |