your vision
and ambition

made real

Backing ambition for more than 35 years

Regional expertise across 12 UK locations

Partners with growing UK mid-market businesses

The private equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group

You’ve got big ambitions for your business. You’ve already achieved impressive growth, and now it’s time to take it to the next level.

Partner with LDC and we can help you to make it happen.

Backing

Ambition

There’s never been a more important time to support ambition in UK business.

That’s why LDC has £1.2bn to invest in private equity partnerships over the next three years. We are actively looking for management teams with real vision.

We know that mid-market businesses from across the country are key to the UK economy. And we want to back business leaders like you to grow your business, your way.

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Ambitious Partnerships

For over 35 years, LDC has partnered with some of the UK’s most inspiring business leaders helping them achieve their ambitions through private equity.

LDC’s long-term and flexible approach enables us to invest through economic cycles and provide follow-on funding to support our portfolio.

Find out more about our success stories and what makes LDC stand-out as one of the UK’s best mid-market private equity firms.

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A committed and successful private equity partner

>35

years of backing
ambition

£1.2bn

to invest in the next
three years

600

management teams have
chosen to work with LDC

regional locations
across the UK

£100m

of flexible funding available for each company

3 yr

partnership with
The Prince’s Trust

Backing Youth Ambition

In 2019 LDC partnered with The Prince’s Trust to support over 1,200 young entrepreneurs across the UK over the next three years.

Backing Youth Ambition aims to help young people explore and launch their own businesses through start-up grants and additional funding for The Prince’s Trust’s Enterprise Programme.

In our first year, our Backing Youth Ambition partnership has contributed £431,000 to support more than 650 young entrepreneurs, through donations, volunteering, event attendance and mentoring. Read more

Paul Thandi CBE
Chief Executive, The NEC Group

“We had a choice of a few people to go with, and what I liked the most about LDC was their approach. First and foremost, it wasn’t the business, it was the management team that they were interested in.”

Tom Joule
Founder and Chief Brand Officer, Joules

“LDC has been an important partner to Joules, supporting the implementation of management’s strategic plan which included significant investment in infrastructure and the retail store portfolio.”

Debbie Bestwick MBE
Founder and CEO, Team17

“We were fortunate because everyone tabled offers for what we wanted, so we chose the best partner. The team really helped me prepare for an IPO. They nurtured me well.”

What is private equity?

Private equity helps you open up growth opportunities for your business without losing control of the decision-making.

Why LDC?

More than 600 management teams have chosen LDC’s flexible approach to private equity over the past 35 years.

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your vision and ambition