your vision and ambition
made real
Backing ambition
for 40 years
We are sharing inspirational stories from our current and past portfolio company leaders to mark 40 years of backing ambitious mid-market businesses across the UK.
The Year Ahead at 40
Few of us will ever look back on another year like 2020. The pandemic created a unique set of challenges for us all professionally and personally. Some faced adversity, others found opportunity, and everyone felt uncertainty.But an important characteristic in the management teams we have partnered with over the last 40 years is that of ambition. And last year showed just how resilient ambition can be.
Read our Year Ahead at 40 to learn about our approach in 2020 and over the last 40 years and our perspective on what the future holds. The Year Ahead at 40 : Discover more Discover more

The LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders 2020
The LDC Top 50 – supported by The Telegraph – aims to find and celebrate the UK’s most ambitious business leaders behind growing medium-sized businesses from every sector and region across the UK. Discover the inspiring stories behind this year’s exceptional leaders and find out about the individual award winners.
A committed and successful private equity partner
ambition
three years
chosen to work with LDC
across the UK
for each company
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. Backing Youth Ambition : Discover more Discover more
